Is the Government going to abandon conservation schemes ?

[PSQ]

How do the best gardeners, who seem to grow enormous show-winning crops year after year, manage their soil?

Do they still insist on double digging, or do they just scratch the surface, scatter the seeds, and hope for the best.

I asked the son of the guy who won everything at the local veg show for 20 years straight, and he informed me that his dad filled sack after sack of sheep sh!t which he used to make a 'sheep sh!t tea' for irrigation.
Now I know why he used to always give away his veg after the shows....

 

[pgk]

I haven’t had a pay rise in 9 years other than annual 1-2% sub inflationary increments. My brother works in media and hasn’t had one for years either. I’d like to see where this supposed wage inflation is.

Govt statistics show above inflation pay rises for the last three years for all bar the public sector. However one needs to dig down into the detail to identify which sectors are getting the rises. The most obvious sectors being plc directors and bankers surprisingly although there are others who have been doing very nicely. The downsides to headline figures is it hides the fact that some sectors are doing very nicely in comparison with some very poor. Noticeably is the increasing practice of paying one off non pensionable bonus' to those lower down the pecking order and the increased reliance of zero hour short term contracts for large sections of the gig economy. As one might expect professionals and specialists do particularly well.

 

[pgk]

I asked the son of the guy who won everything at the local veg show for 20 years straight, and he informed me that his dad filled sack after sack of sheep sh!t which he used to make a 'sheep sh!t tea' for irrigation.
Now I know why he used to always give away his veg after the shows....

FIL likes to quote cow sh!t is worth a sheeps fart!

 

[thesilentone]

This country came through the second war after 5 years of unprecedented spending. Not only were parts of the country bombed, but the infrastructure (in particular the railways) and the people had been run into the deck to meet wartime demands. Thousands of men, military and civilian had been killed or maimed.

We are a long way away from that kind of situation I would suggest. I do not see the need for all this pessimism. We need to isolate ourselves, keep vital services ticking over and look out for each other. Having troops on the streets will not be good for public morale. Yes the government will rack up some debt, it was inevitable howsoever you look at it.

I do not see any other option than the one we have already pursued. The alternative will potentially be 250,000 people dead as far as I can see because the NHS just won't be able to help anyone any sense if hundreds of thousands of people get infected which looks a very real possibility.

It's a virus we are facing, not the emergence of SkyNet.

...............however, we were virtually bankrupt and needed bailed out by the yanks.

 

[farmerm]

Oh yes it does.
Goverments borrowing money, printing it, de valuing it, not paying it back unfortunately they aren’t bothered about what you and I do.
I spoke to a mate of mine today who works in de la rue. He’s working flat out can’t get any time off they are wanting £27 billion printed in a hurry and want more after that.

Looking for some positives in this hole shitshow… it might be that a big devaluation of the £ turns out to be the saviour of UK Ag at this time when had been expecting to be swamped with cheap food imports.... There will be serious cash creation from thin air for the Dollar and Euro too....

 

[livestock 1]

Looking for some positives in this hole shitshow… it might be that a big devaluation of the £ turns out to be the saviour of UK Ag at this time when had been expecting to be swamped with cheap food imports.... There will be serious cash creation from thin air for the Dollar and Euro too....

This is what I’m thinking. Only trouble with this model is that the economy would need a high interest rate to survive. Not all plain sailing. Like giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Nevertheless it would appear the only way forward at the moment

 

[britt]

FIL likes to quote cow sh!t is worth a sheeps fart!

Grandad used to say a sheeps fart is better than a cows pi$$

 

[som farmer]

Grandad used to say a sheeps fart is better than a cows pi$$
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Looking for some positives in this hole shitshow… it might be that a big devaluation of the £ turns out to be the saviour of UK Ag at this time when had been expecting to be swamped with cheap food imports.... There will be serious cash creation from thin air for the Dollar and Euro too....

forget the top bit.
so many countries have chucked huge amounts of cash into their economies, might it end up as a global devaluation, but whatever happens, it's all got to be replaced somewhere along the line. For farmers, it could give us a boost in importance !
I see boris is holding to his Brexit time scale, and with a less than unified EU at the moment, good idea.
An example of a united EU, son has a friend who has a log cabin on order from Poland, delivery date, 13/14 march, to start with, lorry could move, erecters couldn't cross the german border, the next thing, lorry couldn't, but they could, they worked a route out, via Lithuania, lorry now stuck on another border, all countries acting independently, no common policy.