New Sections on TFF - Home on the Farm

[Chris F]

Morning all - we have been listening and after feedback have made a few changes, to pull some off-topic conversations into farming sections and to create a "family and food" section. These have mostly been conversations about food, children or parenting. We have also noticed more threads about succession, selling food direct from farm, family farming issues and dealing with all these subjects. Part of this process has involved speaking to charities like FCN who support farmers and are seeing more conversations around these topics. @FCN have been a big part of us making this decision as have the @Farm Safety Foundation and a farmer called Milly Fyfe @MillyFyfe. As always we will review it continually.

We have created three new sections with a slightly different branding.

Home on the Farm
Farm Life - Bringing the UK farming community together and helping support each other.

• Family and Farming
• Parenting and Children on the Farm
• Food from the Farm

We have moved some content from other sections, leaving permanent re-directs to these new sections. As always we have probably made some mistakes when doing this, but we do feel is good to talk about these issues and those conversations have been spread around different forum sections in the past.

 

[Highland Mule]

Interesting that you've moved direct selling away from Agriculture into what I suspect will become at best a niche area. This is surely the future for anyone who can - engage directly with the end customer and cut down the supply chain. Farming should be about more than just commodity production.

 

[Chris F]

Interesting that you've moved direct selling away from Agriculture into what I suspect will become at best a niche area. This is surely the future for anyone who can - engage directly with the end customer and cut down the supply chain. Farming should be about more than just commodity production.

Nothing is perfect - a permanent re-direct has been left in the original forum. I would agree with you completely and that's the sort of conversations we should be having and also allowing farmers to sell directly outside the supply chain easily.

 

[delilah]

Suggestion, move the sticky in Agricultural matters 'Promote your farm shop etc' to be a sticky on the new Food from the farm ?

 

[Chris F]

Suggestion, move the sticky in Agricultural matters 'Promote your farm shop etc' to be a sticky on the new Food from the farm ?

Good idea - done.