No Deal Brexit

Darn site closer to send lambs to France than all these new markets further away, that we are being promised in any new trade deals.

It's cheaper to ship chilled and frozen product half way around the world than to truck it across the English Channel.


Is that how you define ‘food miles’?:scratchhead: Does the NZ lamb sitting in the supermarket only have to count the distance travelled to the farm’s loading ramp, where they step onto the lorry owned by the processor?


FYI: NZ farmers have the trucking from farm to processor deducted from their killing sheet (carcass value) total. Processors don't own trucks. Also the export transporting costs to market is calculated from the global basket of over 100 markets and that is built into the schedule price farmers receive from their processor. For more years than not over the last 20 years or so, much of our beef and lamb exports via the farmer owned Co-operatives (majority of capacity), supplying shareholders have received a rebate derived from better sale prices, factory efficiencies and shipping savings, ie. sharing the profits.
Food miles only have impact with the flying of product and long distance trucking.
 
At the risk of being accused of dipshittery, us being paid the RPA money is a result of us being in the EU; it doesn't really matter whether the EU gets the money from the UK government or not, the UK government is definitely not going to reallocate its EU contribution to us when we leave. There is sufficient interest and concern for farming, and its strategic importance as an industry, in the EU to ensure the payments carry on; but there is not that sort of interest and concern in the UK, By leaving we surrender the political protection that we have enjoyed. I don't think any of that is controversial.
 

czechmate

Member
Mixed Farmer
At the risk of being accused of dipshittery, us being paid the RPA money is a result of us being in the EU; it doesn't really matter whether the EU gets the money from the UK government or not, the UK government is definitely not going to reallocate its EU contribution to us when we leave. There is sufficient interest and concern for farming, and its strategic importance as an industry, in the EU to ensure the payments carry on; but there is not that sort of interest and concern in the UK, By leaving we surrender the political protection that we have enjoyed. I don't think any of that is controversial.


What’s the opposite of dipshittery?
(y)
 

yellowbelly

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
What’s the opposite of dipshittery?
..............shitdippery? scratching-head-smiley-emoticon.gif
 

Hilly

Member
At the risk of being accused of dipshittery, us being paid the RPA money is a result of us being in the EU; it doesn't really matter whether the EU gets the money from the UK government or not, the UK government is definitely not going to reallocate its EU contribution to us when we leave. There is sufficient interest and concern for farming, and its strategic importance as an industry, in the EU to ensure the payments carry on; but there is not that sort of interest and concern in the UK, By leaving we surrender the political protection that we have enjoyed. I don't think any of that is controversial.
Correct and properly put, its a risk no doubt but sometimes risks are worth taking for the long term greater good.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 3 1.7%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 4 2.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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