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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 6972383" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>The biggest issue with current formal courses is that they lack on the practical side and tend to concentrate too much on training land managers with an emphasis on 'conservation' and shite like that which doesn't make for a competitive profitable business.</p><p>As for teaching students, the most difficult thing for some of them to grasp, even if the course actually teaches them this, is the ultimate aim of running a commercial farm. What is the essential aim of a farm manager and should be for all farm workers?</p><p></p><p>The answer is the same as for any other business. It is to make money. A lot is made of the word 'sustainable' these days, without regard to the absolutely essential magic ingredient that makes a farm sustainable, which is for it to make sufficient money to pay for management, investment and a healthy surplus of money.</p><p></p><p>What courses are equipping people for a farming life these days, I cannot say. What I do know is that there are far too many being trained to fill posts in DEFRA, the RPA, other agencies, assurance inspectors and advisory posts, rather than to directly run a farm business. The weight of these and the regulations they dream up are making agriculture less competitive and sustainable, not more so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 6972383, member: 718"] The biggest issue with current formal courses is that they lack on the practical side and tend to concentrate too much on training land managers with an emphasis on 'conservation' and shite like that which doesn't make for a competitive profitable business. As for teaching students, the most difficult thing for some of them to grasp, even if the course actually teaches them this, is the ultimate aim of running a commercial farm. What is the essential aim of a farm manager and should be for all farm workers? The answer is the same as for any other business. It is to make money. A lot is made of the word 'sustainable' these days, without regard to the absolutely essential magic ingredient that makes a farm sustainable, which is for it to make sufficient money to pay for management, investment and a healthy surplus of money. What courses are equipping people for a farming life these days, I cannot say. What I do know is that there are far too many being trained to fill posts in DEFRA, the RPA, other agencies, assurance inspectors and advisory posts, rather than to directly run a farm business. The weight of these and the regulations they dream up are making agriculture less competitive and sustainable, not more so. [/QUOTE]
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