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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 8133513" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>perhaps the increased cost of fert, isn't a bad thing, and we can all learn how we can reduce our reliance on it. I am not an 'organic farming' follower, looking at some around us, fert/sprays are replaced by diesel, and the continual ploughing of ground, isn't for me, a long term solution, fully accept not all organic farmers, are like that.</p><p>I feel that fert use, has become a necessity, to produce decent yields, in many farmers mindset, and many are to 'frightened', not to use it, 'just in case' things don't grow. Could include me, in that trend, not so many years ago.</p><p>We have/are entering a new era for farming, whether the benefits of higher prices, will show on the bottom line, l have my doubts, there are to many people living off our backs, and guvs using every trick they can, to keep cost, to the consumer, as low as possible, and we are the bottom rung, of the ladder.</p><p>I have always said, sustained, increased profit, can only be achieved by cutting COP, which isn't the easiest thing to achieve. At the same time, we are at a point, where climate change legislation, will increasingly impact on how we farm, while more production, is required, cheap production as well. Sprays, and fert use, are not climate friendly, energy costs are rising, all important things in modern farming. But we have become so reliant on those, alternatives have been largely ignored, and those alternatives, for those who choose to use them, may well find profits climb nicely, with the emphasis on choose, those 'forced' to follow that route, will not necessarily make it work, so well. It needs a massive mindset change, to make it work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 8133513, member: 86168"] perhaps the increased cost of fert, isn't a bad thing, and we can all learn how we can reduce our reliance on it. I am not an 'organic farming' follower, looking at some around us, fert/sprays are replaced by diesel, and the continual ploughing of ground, isn't for me, a long term solution, fully accept not all organic farmers, are like that. I feel that fert use, has become a necessity, to produce decent yields, in many farmers mindset, and many are to 'frightened', not to use it, 'just in case' things don't grow. Could include me, in that trend, not so many years ago. We have/are entering a new era for farming, whether the benefits of higher prices, will show on the bottom line, l have my doubts, there are to many people living off our backs, and guvs using every trick they can, to keep cost, to the consumer, as low as possible, and we are the bottom rung, of the ladder. I have always said, sustained, increased profit, can only be achieved by cutting COP, which isn't the easiest thing to achieve. At the same time, we are at a point, where climate change legislation, will increasingly impact on how we farm, while more production, is required, cheap production as well. Sprays, and fert use, are not climate friendly, energy costs are rising, all important things in modern farming. But we have become so reliant on those, alternatives have been largely ignored, and those alternatives, for those who choose to use them, may well find profits climb nicely, with the emphasis on choose, those 'forced' to follow that route, will not necessarily make it work, so well. It needs a massive mindset change, to make it work. [/QUOTE]
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