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Holistic Farming
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7606246" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>man tries to control nature, to varying short terms of success. The real problem is people are not prepared to pay enough for the food they think they want. S/mkts play on this, and strive to have greener credentials than their rivals, again without upping the price they pay. The result is a type of farming, where all corners need to be cut, simply to make a living. The result, fert and sprays, are used to lower cost of production, crap is added to food, to bulk it up. R/up is a massive cost saver, it has altered farming the world over, but no one really knows the long term effects on people, but we can have a guess what will happen, to farming, higher costs. At the same time, no-one is prepared to cover those costs, so, as l posted earlier, perhaps the benefits out weigh the downs. We would seriously miss r/up if it is withdrawn, it is a brilliant product.</p><p> So what is the answer, basically there isn't one, r/up may be replaced, with what, something that in 10 yrs, will be classed as 'dangerous' ? People are not willing to pay a fair price for their food, and guvs desperately want to keep prices down, and commodity food, at commodity price, is not profitable without those short term fixes.</p><p> We could go round in circles on this subject, and not come to a conclusion, other than, you pay for what you eat, and if people won't pay, where does that leave us ? Food production, and human wants, are going in very different directions, and l cannot see them meeting, any time soon, so l have no answer to the enigma.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7606246, member: 86168"] man tries to control nature, to varying short terms of success. The real problem is people are not prepared to pay enough for the food they think they want. S/mkts play on this, and strive to have greener credentials than their rivals, again without upping the price they pay. The result is a type of farming, where all corners need to be cut, simply to make a living. The result, fert and sprays, are used to lower cost of production, crap is added to food, to bulk it up. R/up is a massive cost saver, it has altered farming the world over, but no one really knows the long term effects on people, but we can have a guess what will happen, to farming, higher costs. At the same time, no-one is prepared to cover those costs, so, as l posted earlier, perhaps the benefits out weigh the downs. We would seriously miss r/up if it is withdrawn, it is a brilliant product. So what is the answer, basically there isn't one, r/up may be replaced, with what, something that in 10 yrs, will be classed as 'dangerous' ? People are not willing to pay a fair price for their food, and guvs desperately want to keep prices down, and commodity food, at commodity price, is not profitable without those short term fixes. We could go round in circles on this subject, and not come to a conclusion, other than, you pay for what you eat, and if people won't pay, where does that leave us ? Food production, and human wants, are going in very different directions, and l cannot see them meeting, any time soon, so l have no answer to the enigma. [/QUOTE]
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