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Looming food crisis,what can uk ag industry do?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lowland1" data-source="post: 8100346" data-attributes="member: 66524"><p>We are growing premium veg for the UK not corn or cabbages what we send is a drop in the ocean. My biggest problem comes in the off season when UK growers get preference and better prices we are scratching round to keep people on and everything going so if the UK wants to stop planting I'm all for it but they won't. Wheat prices here are £300 tonne+ and with one bag of 40%N6%S I can get 2.5 tonne an acre so i'm buying a combine and drilling wheat during the UK summer which gives UK farmers a chance to put in some beans and broccoli because I won't be acting as a backup this summer. UK/EU policy has been stupid and the UKs continues to be stupid but higher crop prices give farmers the chance to get off the hand out treadmill and do what they want, if they want . My Dad used to whine like mad about filling in his IACS forms but the truth of it was a bit of paperwork and they gave you money brilliant. My small farm in UK won't be growing trees it will be growing crops like it should be half this forum seems to be what can we get out the Government and the other about how the Government doesn't care. If you want their cash you have to follow their rules. He who pays the piper etc... Farms have got bigger it is a fact that's unlikely to change but remove the Government and you might find that without their handouts they can fail too. Forget ELMS etc and embrace the free market and don't worry about high fertiliser prices because if nobody's buying they won't stay high for long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lowland1, post: 8100346, member: 66524"] We are growing premium veg for the UK not corn or cabbages what we send is a drop in the ocean. My biggest problem comes in the off season when UK growers get preference and better prices we are scratching round to keep people on and everything going so if the UK wants to stop planting I'm all for it but they won't. Wheat prices here are £300 tonne+ and with one bag of 40%N6%S I can get 2.5 tonne an acre so i'm buying a combine and drilling wheat during the UK summer which gives UK farmers a chance to put in some beans and broccoli because I won't be acting as a backup this summer. UK/EU policy has been stupid and the UKs continues to be stupid but higher crop prices give farmers the chance to get off the hand out treadmill and do what they want, if they want . My Dad used to whine like mad about filling in his IACS forms but the truth of it was a bit of paperwork and they gave you money brilliant. My small farm in UK won't be growing trees it will be growing crops like it should be half this forum seems to be what can we get out the Government and the other about how the Government doesn't care. If you want their cash you have to follow their rules. He who pays the piper etc... Farms have got bigger it is a fact that's unlikely to change but remove the Government and you might find that without their handouts they can fail too. Forget ELMS etc and embrace the free market and don't worry about high fertiliser prices because if nobody's buying they won't stay high for long. [/QUOTE]
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