If you think we have it hard now in comparison to some points in farming history you haven't got a fecking clueProbably. UK ag has been on the decline for at least 40 years. We've lost 52% since 1972. I've never seen such a deep rut, 1970's prices, 2020 costs, supermarket monopolies, couldn't give a fudge general public.
We need a really radical change in policy to escape the rut. £50 / acre dole money ain't going to cut it.
And no doubt have the joy and enthusiasm beaten out of them over the next 40 years, just in time to make way for the next generation of 'hopeless day dreamers' and 'know it alls' to take over ?Plenty of bright young and enthusiastic famers will take the place of all the old worn out doom mongers
The timing is bad for him apparently ?Why isn't he selling up then?
One of the most important things agricultural scientist need to be currently investigating is how to get a dairy cow to be able to come into milk without producing a calf in a manner similar to how a goat can milk as a maiden milker without kidding.
Working this out in my opinion will help both the dairy and beef industries thrive in the forth coming years and getting past major bad publicity from vegans.
That will involve the use of hormones and stories about dairy cows being “pumped full of hormones”.
That won’t sound any better to the masses of terminally gullible.
Giving birth to produce milk is the natural way.
Could farm your way out of trouble then , even in the darkest days post f&m made more sense than todayI cant understand the pessimism. Most of you here are surely old enough to have seen wheat at £60/tonne or the country in the grip of BSE or F and M, or having been stuck with negative equity or interest rates of 15%?
If some of the above was going on Id understand it.
The product is BST, (Bovine Somatotrophin) which works apparently, by increasing cell production or preventing cell death. Which is how cancers spread and develop, is it not? Cells gone rogue. BST Injections need to be regular. And I don’t fancy turning our dairy cows into junkies awaiting a fix.
He always is?Is @Cowabunga right, are we doomed? Should we sell everything now whilst there's still a market for stock and land?
@Farmer Roy is currently suffering collapse of his farming environment.Farmers who lived through the 1920s or a couple of decades in the 19 century may have something to say about how bad it is in Comparison
I get no subsidy I get a payment@Farmer Roy is currently suffering collapse of his farming environment.
We in the UK are a bunch of subsidised softcocks in comparison.
The difference?.....In reality.I get no subsidy I get a payment
Plenty of bright young and enthusiastic famers will take the place of all the old worn out doom mongers
Pessimists will always be such, cast your minds back to 2008 and the financial crash, we shouldn't be here now! Frankly some of the expert posters from way back then should be embarrassed. Indeed most of them are still with us and they haven't changed.
Wise up! You would mess with nature to applease vegans!One of the most important things agricultural scientist need to be currently investigating is how to get a dairy cow to be able to come into milk without producing a calf in a manner similar to how a goat can milk as a maiden milker without kidding.
Working this out in my opinion will help both the dairy and beef industries thrive in the forth coming years and getting past major bad publicity from vegans.
Probably not but the fact definitely remains that there are far to many calf's being created for the market that purchases them.Wise up! You would mess with nature to applease vegans!
Do you think that would make any difference to them, seriously?