opininionated
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There is a difference between what people charge and what they earn, don't confuse the two....
France to link food prices to farmers’ cost of production!!!
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There is a difference between what people charge and what they earn, don't confuse the two....
Bossfarmer
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So do tbe french at least theyre looking after their own farmers
Bossfarmer
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Id be happy to see subs go if the UK governemnt were to adopt the same policy as the french and at least cover our costs rather than let supermarkets screw us and then import cheap crap if we cant afford to continue
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rubbish. Someone somewhere adds value to everything you produce.
There are more ways to add value than meat boxes and farm shops.
PGI Scotch beef is a great example.
Angus named sire scheme another.
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Like I say above, more ways to add value than farm shops and meat boxes.
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my point still stands I'm afraid. The (edit) premium market is still limited for these products.
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
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Nope, so I don't get the reference.
If you cannot add value then it is the business that is pointless
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He visited a coca farmer, adding value by turning it to a paste not quite full blown, street ready, cocain
caveman
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Even if you were in a protected market......some body else would always find a way of getting their stuff gone by offering incentives that will cost them a good part of their margin, whilst your produce deteriorates in your store.
Guess it could only be done with marketing boards and quotas.
Bossfarmer
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You might be able to add value but at what cost and will it be enough, will it support our nations farmers or just the small few that get there first or in the right locations
Who said anything about s premium market? Everybody along the chain has to add value to their inputs - if they don't then they are simply wasting their time
Bossfarmer
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Whats your solution then?
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Maybe you don't want to give away your business plan but if you are a fair sized farmer say harvesting a few thousand tonnes of wheat, how do you add value to it. Of course, back in the day I would only grow milling wheat, aim for the 13% protein, high enough specific weight and harvest before the hagburg was gone to get full bread making premium but it's peanuts and hardly what I would call "adding value". In fact, some years that added value seemed to cost more to get than it was worth
caveman
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To what?
Bossfarmer
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Post brexit agricultural policy and the uks food security
Bossfarmer
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Your coming out with big statements here but not really backing them up in any way
Having been made redundant on several occasions I kind of struggle with the idea that the world owes farmers a living as opposed to any other group.
You could with some logic argue that maintaining the countryside is a way of adding value, or some such.
The French idea is initially attractive it will however inevitably have to be linked to some form of quota system and I am sure will produce losers as well as winners
caveman
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Don't harvest grain and haul it down the road in a leaking silage trailer.
If a business cannot charge more for its outputs than it pays for its inputs how would you describe it's long term viability?