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James Rebanks on Radio 4 this morning
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<blockquote data-quote="CopperBeech" data-source="post: 7855836" data-attributes="member: 8925"><p>Ok so I’d probably better qualify my earlier point a bit ....</p><p></p><p>Ive been involved in / on a regenerative agricultural journey since 2015. In fact for a lot of that time I have been balls deep in regen ag, learning at the deep end on a big scale .... whilst still being expected to make a profit.</p><p></p><p>Ignoring some of the extremities of the approach I think it is THE way forward, it is how we can farm successfully and environmentally sustainably.</p><p></p><p>To me it seems we have two options - we either get regen ag or we get rewilding and the latter for the main part is an ill thought through joke which is built around a lack of basic knowledge and lots of virtue signalling.</p><p></p><p>However what I struggle with is this - James Rebanks and a whole raft of others are always proposing this small scale pastoral dream. They are good and kind farmers with a small number of herdwicks, couple of bellies. They drive a quad, buy in silage and cake, wear woollen jumpers and talk about community. It’s a nice but somewhat flawed image. It’s produces enough food to feed a small number of people. Maybe. Now stick them next to 5000 lambs behind electric on roots, or several hundred cattle grazing lines of bales on a grass farm in winter and its always the same - small is good, but big is bad. In reality if you broke it down it’s not really true .......</p><p></p><p>Its just like the idea of provenance and taste - you can go to a local butcher here and buy lamb and tell everyone how much better it is to support local farmers and buy high welfare grass fed lamb .... much better than anything from the supermarket. In reality it’s the same lamb.</p><p></p><p>Just like you can buy a herd wick lamb in a box from a fell farm that was finished with a trough ...... but that’s going to apparently be better than the same herdwick lamb which had come down to me and gone into a night mixed herbal lay or cover crop on a regenerative arable farm to finish .........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CopperBeech, post: 7855836, member: 8925"] Ok so I’d probably better qualify my earlier point a bit .... Ive been involved in / on a regenerative agricultural journey since 2015. In fact for a lot of that time I have been balls deep in regen ag, learning at the deep end on a big scale .... whilst still being expected to make a profit. Ignoring some of the extremities of the approach I think it is THE way forward, it is how we can farm successfully and environmentally sustainably. To me it seems we have two options - we either get regen ag or we get rewilding and the latter for the main part is an ill thought through joke which is built around a lack of basic knowledge and lots of virtue signalling. However what I struggle with is this - James Rebanks and a whole raft of others are always proposing this small scale pastoral dream. They are good and kind farmers with a small number of herdwicks, couple of bellies. They drive a quad, buy in silage and cake, wear woollen jumpers and talk about community. It’s a nice but somewhat flawed image. It’s produces enough food to feed a small number of people. Maybe. Now stick them next to 5000 lambs behind electric on roots, or several hundred cattle grazing lines of bales on a grass farm in winter and its always the same - small is good, but big is bad. In reality if you broke it down it’s not really true ....... Its just like the idea of provenance and taste - you can go to a local butcher here and buy lamb and tell everyone how much better it is to support local farmers and buy high welfare grass fed lamb .... much better than anything from the supermarket. In reality it’s the same lamb. Just like you can buy a herd wick lamb in a box from a fell farm that was finished with a trough ...... but that’s going to apparently be better than the same herdwick lamb which had come down to me and gone into a night mixed herbal lay or cover crop on a regenerative arable farm to finish ......... [/QUOTE]
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