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<blockquote data-quote="Global ovine" data-source="post: 5974328" data-attributes="member: 493"><p>[USER=106502]@livestock 1[/USER] and [USER=16562]@digger64[/USER] I also find the situation you find yourself in rather perplexing, especially for farmers who really want to farm, not park keep. However anyone who accepts a payment from wherever must also accept the conditions under which it is given.</p><p>What I also find disturbing is the lack of a long term strategy for domestic UK food production. It looks very much (from far off) that UK farming is a political football kicked about by many factions with very self centred agendas. The range of environmental classifications and their limitations has me flummoxed. I am all for environment protection and encouragement to achieve productivity without environmental degradation. From what I see between international policies, is giving farmers freedom to farm and the tools to measure their environmental footprint works well. But farmers need a resilient business to fund the expectations of the general public. If that business cannot make a competitive profit with its capital, as UK farm profitability data strongly indicates across most land uses, the public will have to compensate. Unfortunately such a long history of this has occurred that UK farmers have to march to the tune of the piper. Farming is a long game and therefore cannot march to different pipers playing different tunes every ten minutes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Global ovine, post: 5974328, member: 493"] [USER=106502]@livestock 1[/USER] and [USER=16562]@digger64[/USER] I also find the situation you find yourself in rather perplexing, especially for farmers who really want to farm, not park keep. However anyone who accepts a payment from wherever must also accept the conditions under which it is given. What I also find disturbing is the lack of a long term strategy for domestic UK food production. It looks very much (from far off) that UK farming is a political football kicked about by many factions with very self centred agendas. The range of environmental classifications and their limitations has me flummoxed. I am all for environment protection and encouragement to achieve productivity without environmental degradation. From what I see between international policies, is giving farmers freedom to farm and the tools to measure their environmental footprint works well. But farmers need a resilient business to fund the expectations of the general public. If that business cannot make a competitive profit with its capital, as UK farm profitability data strongly indicates across most land uses, the public will have to compensate. Unfortunately such a long history of this has occurred that UK farmers have to march to the tune of the piper. Farming is a long game and therefore cannot march to different pipers playing different tunes every ten minutes. [/QUOTE]
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