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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 8150359" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>only 50/60% self sufficient.</p><p>totally agree, not only our guv, but several more, are sleepwalking into a disaster</p><p>even the s/mkts don't seem to have realised this isn't a 'short term' hic cup, but a long term decline, brought about by guvs desire for cheap food, understandable, if stupid, and the s/mkts greed for profit and control, a disastrous mix.</p><p>The problem is serious, and there are not many pointers to increase production, more negative ones really. Wasted food is a big problem, partly s/mkt fault for putting use buy dates, on product, that are not necessarily correct.</p><p> Globally, as production falls, people in the poorer countries will starve, many to death, those countries will attempt to increase production, using methods that could easily result in desertification, deforestation etc, a short term fix, creating a bigger future problems.</p><p> Mankind is the underlying cause, there are simply to many of us in the world, not to sure how one should correct that. WHO has been saying for yrs, the world could not supply enough food, to feed every one, pre 2000, it was 2010, then 2020, then 2030, perhaps the 2020 forecast was nearest the mark.</p><p> For farmers, its quite good news, we will be wanted again, and should receive decent prices, for a change, or at least a short time, before we are called feather bedded farmers again.</p><p> But, it is a serious problem coming, that no-one really seems to fully take on board.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 8150359, member: 86168"] only 50/60% self sufficient. totally agree, not only our guv, but several more, are sleepwalking into a disaster even the s/mkts don't seem to have realised this isn't a 'short term' hic cup, but a long term decline, brought about by guvs desire for cheap food, understandable, if stupid, and the s/mkts greed for profit and control, a disastrous mix. The problem is serious, and there are not many pointers to increase production, more negative ones really. Wasted food is a big problem, partly s/mkt fault for putting use buy dates, on product, that are not necessarily correct. Globally, as production falls, people in the poorer countries will starve, many to death, those countries will attempt to increase production, using methods that could easily result in desertification, deforestation etc, a short term fix, creating a bigger future problems. Mankind is the underlying cause, there are simply to many of us in the world, not to sure how one should correct that. WHO has been saying for yrs, the world could not supply enough food, to feed every one, pre 2000, it was 2010, then 2020, then 2030, perhaps the 2020 forecast was nearest the mark. For farmers, its quite good news, we will be wanted again, and should receive decent prices, for a change, or at least a short time, before we are called feather bedded farmers again. But, it is a serious problem coming, that no-one really seems to fully take on board. [/QUOTE]
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