Naylor’s Cabbage Factory

[Devil's advocate]

I'm assuming they've solved the labour issue when it comes to harvesting their raw cabbage?

Harvesters available for industrial cabbage. Asalift & there are others.

 

[Devil's advocate]

meh....very niche.....brassicas need a wide rotation so never really going to challenge meat production....plus it needs the decent arable land and irrigation........a lot of meat is produced on pasture land that couldn't produce food any other way

good luck to them in the meantime

Shall have to give my grade 3 unirrigated land a good telling off does 40 to 60 ton per acre easily of industrial cabbage.

 

[primmiemoo]

Tagging on with this about the provenance of bamboo fibre ~

Before You Buy Bamboo Fabrics | Very Bamboo™

verybamboo.com

Wondering which process would yield cabbage fibre.

 

[Lowland1]

100 tonnes a hectare no fertilizer but watered

 

[Devil's advocate]

100 tonnes a hectare no fertilizer but watered
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They look wide rows, what spacing are you on. Odd thing cabbage wider the spacing higher the yeild, but of course 1 kg heads is what we all want for pre pack.

 

[Lowland1]

They look wide rows, what spacing are you on. Odd thing cabbage wider the spacing higher the yeild, but of course 1 kg heads is what we all want for pre pack.

We plant about 15,000 an acre on 72 inch beds. If we could get everyone to be 5 kilos we’d be pleased. They load about 12 tonnes in a 7 tonne lorry.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Westerners live in a Walt Disney world; if you have the Russians or Chinese on your doorstep like the Ukrainians or Taiwanese the last thing you're thinking about is the feelings of sentient beings.

Animals to be formally recognised as sentient beings in domestic law

Introduction of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill as part of the Government's Action Plan for Animal Welfare

www.gov.uk

"Formally recognising in law that animals are sentient and experience feelings in the same way humans do is just the first step" says Lord Goldsmith.

But they don't.

A few simple humans interpret animal thoughts and actions in human terms.

 

[primmiemoo]

BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 in Four - Six reasons plants are cleverer than you think

Plants can do much more than we might think. So is it wrong to eat them?

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[betweenthelines]

"Formally recognising in law that animals are sentient and experience feelings in the same way humans do is just the first step" says Lord Goldsmith.

But they don't.

A few simple humans interpret animal thoughts and actions in human terms.

125 pages of "The farm dog" suggests that farmers believe that at least some animals are sentient

 

[Devil's advocate]

Harvesters available for industrial cabbage. Asalift & there are others.

Poor crop, I'd be ashamed, good machine for industrial stuff & its a long season.

 

[primmiemoo]

125 pages of "The farm dog" suggests that farmers believe that at least some animals are sentient

Dogs are almost human. We've made them, and they've contributed to making us.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

125 pages of "The farm dog" suggests that farmers believe that at least some animals are sentient

But do they "experience feelings in the same way humans do"?

Dogs can certainly make us think they do but what about every other "vertebrate animal from farm to forest"?

 

[yellow belly]

No. In fact I am not even sure if it ever worked.

I grew some for a demontfod uni project that used the process
it produced descent fibre but was never commercialised

it could have worked with sufficient investment and scale
the biggest issue I saw was marketing the fibre
growing it here was not too difficult but needed specialist harvesting equipment developing
cottonised flax could have replaced Cotten but would have been more environmentlly sustainable but needed desication with glyphosate
cotten is either gm or has multiple insecticides needed and is either heavy on irrigation or low yielding on dry land system see farmer Roy’s posts

 

[yellow belly]

100 tonnes a hectare no fertilizer but watered
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Black Land in lincolnshire used to be like that untill the stored organic matter was all burnt up

 

[Lowland1]

Black Land in lincolnshire used to be like that untill the stored organic matter was all burnt up

I’ve never seen cabbages on black land in my part of Lincolnshire. My Great Grandfather farmed near to Boston on silt and he would visit his daughter my Grandmother every harvest time and go around telling my Grandfather he was wasting his time on black land working twice as hard for half as much.