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Guy Smith at Stratford market
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<blockquote data-quote="Tarw Coch" data-source="post: 3839596" data-attributes="member: 1008"><p>One of the reasons prices go up with grants is jobs have to be done up to a standard eg six inches of stone under six inches of concrete with mesh rather than four inches of stone and four inches of concrete will do, you know farmers, they'll cut costs if they can. Yes the core business needs to be profitable to match find but is there really a future in propping up in profitable business? I doubt if they contribute much into the economy, at least the grants generate employment in the wider economy.</p><p></p><p>I doubt wether many yards were covered with the intent of turning them into houses, not sure exactly how these schemes worked as in not in an area that qualifies despite being in an NVZ. A mate a few miles away who isn't in an NVZ has had a grant to cover a handling area but I'm pretty sure it is conditional on him continuing to farm for a number of years or pay the grant back.</p><p>If there have many been put up with that intent the scheme rules need looking at rather than saying the scheme is a bad idea.</p><p></p><p>I have no doubt if subs go completely it will be hard on many, I can't help but think it's the bigger you are the harder it will be, no doubt there's other factors such as borrowings, rent and type of land that will determine just how hard it hits individual businesses.</p><p>There certainly won't be millions driven from the land and allied businesses, there's approx 60 million people in the country and approx half are in employment, split roughly half and half between the public and private sector, I doubt wether farming and allied industries make up a large percentage of the private sector and they certainly won't all go out of business.</p><p></p><p>Like it or not, farm support is going to change and I can't help but think it could be done better than it is now, I think the industry has a choice of trying to get a farm support scheme that is more acceptable to the public and politicians than just handing out money to farmers on the basis of the more land you have the more you get or getting nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarw Coch, post: 3839596, member: 1008"] One of the reasons prices go up with grants is jobs have to be done up to a standard eg six inches of stone under six inches of concrete with mesh rather than four inches of stone and four inches of concrete will do, you know farmers, they'll cut costs if they can. Yes the core business needs to be profitable to match find but is there really a future in propping up in profitable business? I doubt if they contribute much into the economy, at least the grants generate employment in the wider economy. I doubt wether many yards were covered with the intent of turning them into houses, not sure exactly how these schemes worked as in not in an area that qualifies despite being in an NVZ. A mate a few miles away who isn't in an NVZ has had a grant to cover a handling area but I'm pretty sure it is conditional on him continuing to farm for a number of years or pay the grant back. If there have many been put up with that intent the scheme rules need looking at rather than saying the scheme is a bad idea. I have no doubt if subs go completely it will be hard on many, I can't help but think it's the bigger you are the harder it will be, no doubt there's other factors such as borrowings, rent and type of land that will determine just how hard it hits individual businesses. There certainly won't be millions driven from the land and allied businesses, there's approx 60 million people in the country and approx half are in employment, split roughly half and half between the public and private sector, I doubt wether farming and allied industries make up a large percentage of the private sector and they certainly won't all go out of business. Like it or not, farm support is going to change and I can't help but think it could be done better than it is now, I think the industry has a choice of trying to get a farm support scheme that is more acceptable to the public and politicians than just handing out money to farmers on the basis of the more land you have the more you get or getting nothing. [/QUOTE]
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