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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hatton" data-source="post: 8159921" data-attributes="member: 111578"><p>I started this off with the intention of trying to summarise some of what was in the book, I downloaded the audio book, with the intention of listening to it while I worked, how naive!!</p><p></p><p>There’s a lot of detail, lots of references, lots of numbers, my biggest criticism is that he’s referenced most of the worlds problems and could have spent more time looking at the UK…I digress, this man can talk, and god is he boring to listen too!</p><p></p><p>So I bought the book, mainly so I could read some of the reference material, good to see TFF get a mention!!! Also to save my eardrums!</p><p>I’ve forced myself to read the remainder of it, I’ll admit I missed out much of his ramblings on poetry, in summery we’ve all been brainwashed from an early age on the romanticism of what a farm should look like, from children’s books!</p><p></p><p>It covers soil health, in quite a bit of detail to be fair, further in it covers Zero till, although disappointingly Direct Driller magazine wasn’t mentioned, there was a bit more reference on some of the farming practices we’ve become accustomed too over the last 15-20 years around arable cropping.</p><p>Theres a lot of social economic discussion as you can imagine from its author, food banks to pollution and synthetic foods are discussed.</p><p></p><p>His agenda, and he has one, is to rid the world of livestock farming.</p><p></p><p>We’re lucky, we have some of the best livestock producers in the world, highest standards and best conditions to produce livestock, we can always be better though.</p><p></p><p>His list or worryingly ‘manifesto’ contains 13 points, eight of them I actually agree with, some we’re already doing.</p><p></p><p>As an industry we need to be better, we need to take pollution from Ag much more seriously, we need to cut down on chemicals and fertilisers, technology has improved this and will continue to do so, if nothing else, current input costs are making businesses reassess how accurately they really operate and their environmental impact.</p><p>I know there is some fantastic work being done in the main and the industry is working really hard to improve its impacts and image.</p><p></p><p>The reality is that environmentalists will continue to bang the drum, while the oil producers continue to sell oil for the rest of the world to burn, we’ll continue to produce food for the masses, maybe slightly differently, the world will continue to turn, all we can do is try and limit our impact and improve what we’ve got before we leave.</p><p></p><p>It is worth a read, there are some interesting parts to it, as the saying goes, ‘opinions are like arseholes, everyone’s got one’!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Hatton, post: 8159921, member: 111578"] I started this off with the intention of trying to summarise some of what was in the book, I downloaded the audio book, with the intention of listening to it while I worked, how naive!! There’s a lot of detail, lots of references, lots of numbers, my biggest criticism is that he’s referenced most of the worlds problems and could have spent more time looking at the UK…I digress, this man can talk, and god is he boring to listen too! So I bought the book, mainly so I could read some of the reference material, good to see TFF get a mention!!! Also to save my eardrums! I’ve forced myself to read the remainder of it, I’ll admit I missed out much of his ramblings on poetry, in summery we’ve all been brainwashed from an early age on the romanticism of what a farm should look like, from children’s books! It covers soil health, in quite a bit of detail to be fair, further in it covers Zero till, although disappointingly Direct Driller magazine wasn’t mentioned, there was a bit more reference on some of the farming practices we’ve become accustomed too over the last 15-20 years around arable cropping. Theres a lot of social economic discussion as you can imagine from its author, food banks to pollution and synthetic foods are discussed. His agenda, and he has one, is to rid the world of livestock farming. We’re lucky, we have some of the best livestock producers in the world, highest standards and best conditions to produce livestock, we can always be better though. His list or worryingly ‘manifesto’ contains 13 points, eight of them I actually agree with, some we’re already doing. As an industry we need to be better, we need to take pollution from Ag much more seriously, we need to cut down on chemicals and fertilisers, technology has improved this and will continue to do so, if nothing else, current input costs are making businesses reassess how accurately they really operate and their environmental impact. I know there is some fantastic work being done in the main and the industry is working really hard to improve its impacts and image. The reality is that environmentalists will continue to bang the drum, while the oil producers continue to sell oil for the rest of the world to burn, we’ll continue to produce food for the masses, maybe slightly differently, the world will continue to turn, all we can do is try and limit our impact and improve what we’ve got before we leave. It is worth a read, there are some interesting parts to it, as the saying goes, ‘opinions are like arseholes, everyone’s got one’!! [/QUOTE]
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