Looking for farmers' feedback! - Survey on accelerating sustainable agricultural transition

[Agri123]

Hello, I am working in the innovation department for an organization that operates in the food and agri sector. Currently, I am conducting a research that focuses on accelerating the sustainable transition within the agri sector. Goal of this research is to develop solutions that support farmers in doing so. In order to develop these solutions, I would like to hear farmers' feedback on their willingness and ability to become more sustainable.

If you are involved within a farm business, I would really appreciate it if you could spare some time to complete the online survey linked here. All responses are anonymised and confidential, being used solely for research purposes.

Many thanks in advance!

 

[Wood field]

Define sustainable please.
Is it production of beef and lamb on poor upland farms, that add a massive biodiversity.
Or is it planting good lowland arable farms for wild flowers

 

[Vader]

And another leech appears...
Farming the money pot that just keeps giving for the leeches..

 

[Dry Rot]

I can't even be bothered to read further. I try to have nothing to do with those who can't write standard ordinary every day English in case it's catching. OP, try this link: https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/drivel-defence.html

 

[Rossymons]

How much is my opinion and knowledge worth?

 

[Nearly]

Cos farmers are just daft.

 

[DaveGrohl]

accelerating the sustainable transition within the agri sector.

@Agri123
Before I even have a look at your survey, what do you think you mean by this?

 

[Treacle Sponge]

UK agriculture consists of massively different types of farming according to land types, size, structure and ownership. Squeezing the essence of these businesses into a few tick boxes will produce a skewed result. What is sustainability? Isn't that what most mixed farmers have been doing for generations while nobody noticed?

 

[captain useless]

Hello, I am working in the innovation department for an organization that operates in the food and agri sector. Currently, I am conducting a research that focuses on accelerating the sustainable transition within the agri sector. Goal of this research is to develop solutions that support farmers in doing so. In order to develop these solutions, I would like to hear farmers' feedback on their willingness and ability to become more sustainable.

If you are involved within a farm business, I would really appreciate it if you could spare some time to complete the online survey linked here. All responses are anonymised and confidential, being used solely for research purposes.

Many thanks in advance!

So,....you are putting nothing unto this debate just wanting us farmers to give their thoughts on something that isn't clearly defined in your opening post...as already asked ...please define ' sustainable transition'
Thankyou

 

[topground]

At what stage in evolution since Homo Sapiens graduated from relying on being hunter gatherers to becoming farmers to produce their food did farming become unsustainable?
@Agri123

 

[spin cycle]

'sustainability'...to me means ....'persecution'

 

[Flatlander]

At what stage in evolution since Homo Sapiens graduated from relying on being hunter gatherers to becoming farmers to produce their food did farming become unsustainable?
@Agri123

It’s not unsustainable but it’s been manipulated and controlled by those that want Us providing fir the masses for next to nothing. The fact that the agricultural sector keeps so many employed in processing,transportation retailing and paper pushing cling ons tells me farmer are more than sustainable. How many industries would continue with so much stacked against them.

 

[SteveHants]

Off topic
I do wonder how many of these College and University students that join TFF to do surveys etc ,are brainwashed by what their lecturers tell them , and whether they are vegans etc etc .

I often tell my students that this is quite a good place to gage farmer opinion (if that is what they wish to do for their dissertation).

Also, unless other dissertation supervisors are very different from me, the students generate the questions, not me. I might have a look over them, but it is ultimately their project, not mine.

I find the accusations of "brainwashing" that appear, without fail on these kinds of threads reasonably baffling. Lectures and seminars are not polemics, and most lecturers are more interested in helping them to develop critical analysis so that they can form their own, evidence based opinion rather than simply echoing theirs.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, this is an industry survey and not a student one.

 

[DaveGrohl]

I had a couple of minutes to spare and got curious;

Dear respondent,
Thank you for participating in this survey to help us understand a farmer’s willingness and ability to become more sustainable.

So it’s assumed from the outset that no farmers are operating sustainably. Alrighty then.
Still waiting for a definition so we have an idea what’s assumed….

 

[Princess Pooper]

I had a couple of minutes to spare and got curious;

Dear respondent,
Thank you for participating in this survey to help us understand a farmer’s willingness and ability to become more sustainable.

So it’s assumed from the outset that no farmers are operating sustainably. Alrighty then.
Still waiting for a definition so we have an idea what’s assumed….

Our farming is not sustainable on grounds of insufficient returns to pay a return on capital, living wage for ownership and invest for the future environmental demands. Society does not value food highly enough for some forms of agriculture to be sustainable

 

[steveR]

Our farming is not sustainable on grounds of insufficient returns to pay a return on capital, living wage for ownership and invest for the future environmental demands. Society does not value food highly enough for some forms of agriculture to be sustainable

When our present King was wittering on about sustainable farming 10-15years ago, I wrote to The Times in the same vein as your comment...

I suspect this is why my MBE has still not arrived...

 

[steveR]

2 minutes of nonsense I am afraid.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Our farming is not sustainable on grounds of insufficient returns to pay a return on capital, living wage for ownership and invest for the future environmental demands. Society does not value food highly enough for some forms of agriculture to be sustainable

By that measure Jim Ratcliffe‘s massive new plastic factory will be uber-sustainable because it will be churning money out by the boat load.

The horrendous environmental damage is neither here nor there obvs. Main thing is, it’s sustainable…..

Sustainable seems to now be the most abused word on the planet. Closely followed by biodiversity. And then waste.

 

[curlietailz]

Hello, I am working in the innovation department for an organization that operates in the food and agri sector. Currently, I am conducting a research that focuses on accelerating the sustainable transition within the agri sector. Goal of this research is to develop solutions that support farmers in doing so. In order to develop these solutions, I would like to hear farmers' feedback on their willingness and ability to become more sustainable.

If you are involved within a farm business, I would really appreciate it if you could spare some time to complete the online survey linked here. All responses are anonymised and confidential, being used solely for research purposes.

Many thanks in advance!

Why do you think farmers need new solutions?
I reckon the air travel and leisure industries should clean their act up first, you could help them with a new solution
You can live perfectly well without a hobby or a holiday but you wouldn’t last long without food

 

[steveR]

I often tell my students that this is quite a good place to gage farmer opinion (if that is what they wish to do for their dissertation).

With a warning that poorly considered and written surveys will be called out.

It always heartening when a Student comes back after getting some gip, and redoes the survey and engages in open chat.