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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 8150178" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>I think when we had livestock, problems maybe arose due to high inputs pushing high outputs. We had lots of clover in the leys so calves/lambs got too big before birth, sucklers produced the volumes of milk that a dairy cow would have been proud of, but it lead to over strained under milked udders. Yeah we had some cracking fat lambs early summer but it came at a price. Meanwhile the cull ewe who spent the winter in the orchard living on nothing produced two nice small lambs herself one night with no attention. They weren’t fat till February the next year but arguably had as good a margin.</p><p>I’m also worried about the reliance on expensive inputs on the arable side. It’s cat and mouse with rusts and fungicides. Many crops will soon need a permanent system of spray nozzles suspended over them the way things are going live a sort of intensive care ward for plants. It’s all going away robustness with lower output towards weak systems with higher but very precarious output. Saw this with beet. Apply fungicide to get 5% more yield, they said. Now there are strains of Cescospora that are resistant to all fungicides. Nice one. Good work. Scientists and salesmen created a problem out of nowhere.</p><p>Same with obliterating all insect life just to prevent virus in crops. Well hey ho. We should have just lived with random low and high yields due to virus and had higher average output prices to compensate. It depresses me so much to apply insecticides and see the ensuing carnage that in many cases I just refuse to do it any more. </p><p>Rant over. Not really on thread but it’s turning me away from the industry quite frankly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 8150178, member: 2119"] I think when we had livestock, problems maybe arose due to high inputs pushing high outputs. We had lots of clover in the leys so calves/lambs got too big before birth, sucklers produced the volumes of milk that a dairy cow would have been proud of, but it lead to over strained under milked udders. Yeah we had some cracking fat lambs early summer but it came at a price. Meanwhile the cull ewe who spent the winter in the orchard living on nothing produced two nice small lambs herself one night with no attention. They weren’t fat till February the next year but arguably had as good a margin. I’m also worried about the reliance on expensive inputs on the arable side. It’s cat and mouse with rusts and fungicides. Many crops will soon need a permanent system of spray nozzles suspended over them the way things are going live a sort of intensive care ward for plants. It’s all going away robustness with lower output towards weak systems with higher but very precarious output. Saw this with beet. Apply fungicide to get 5% more yield, they said. Now there are strains of Cescospora that are resistant to all fungicides. Nice one. Good work. Scientists and salesmen created a problem out of nowhere. Same with obliterating all insect life just to prevent virus in crops. Well hey ho. We should have just lived with random low and high yields due to virus and had higher average output prices to compensate. It depresses me so much to apply insecticides and see the ensuing carnage that in many cases I just refuse to do it any more. Rant over. Not really on thread but it’s turning me away from the industry quite frankly. [/QUOTE]
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