No prospect of food shortages

[Heatgereater]

Government says “food is not a public good you already get paid for it”
Government says “no food shortages”
Listen to them People don’t throw to much expensive fert on producing yield this year. Save some for next year you might not be able to get it.Can’t see this conflict ending anytime soon. And a larger price hike in wheat is needed to catch up with other inputs.
I would be setting up my rotation for putting seed wheat in next back end if possible.
We might think we should be feeding the country but nobody else does YET. So til then run supplies down and make them pay for it. Then see if policy changes.

 

[An Gof]

NFU President been on Faraming Today this morning. Her key concern ……. the availability of Aubergines, Peppers and Cucumbers.
Left me totally dumbfounded, our own modern day Marie Antoinette.

 

[Hilly]

Inwas shifting some silage bales a few yearsago for a friend near a potato field , the amount of walkers filling carrier bags was unreal !! I knew some of them and some even stopped to say hello you want to get yourself so tatties before you go !! The sense of entitlement was unbelievable i couldn’t believe it !

 

[The Seeker]

NFU President been on Faraming Today this morning. Her key concern ……. the availability of Aubergines, Peppers and Cucumbers.
Left me totally dumbfounded, our own modern day Marie Antoinette.

Let them eat cake

 

[yellowbelly]

True but then you do have the "housing and development" land so its either one or t'other!!!

Not if you're just the tenant

 

[Kiwi Pete]

When a government minister says something like this I can’t help thinking it’s a bit like a prime minister saying he has full confidence in someone a couple of days before sacking him!

Farmers warn Ukraine war will hit UK food prices

Farmers are calling for urgent government action to help them produce enough to feed the nation.

www.bbc.co.uk

Some pain coming for all of us, I fear.

 

[caveman]

For a minister to make such an announcement would point to the fact that the possibility of food shortages has most definitely been discussed at a high level and probably the exact opposite conclusion has been reached.
Be prepared to have your farms seized and given to politicians go ahead mates if you don't get your ploughs out and polish up the mouldboards.

 

[devonbeef]

What world are this government in, are they in denial or have they a agreement with US to feed uk.? In some ways this whole situation plays to their agenda to rid the UK of livestock farmers if not all farmers. Either way it's madness.

 

[teslacoils]

What matters to me is making a profit. Because I have no alternative income. For years the govt has shafted us and the public and media assured us that were not needed, and if we ceased to exist it would make no difference with our 0.7 percent of the economy and carbon pumping.

Well sod them. If they want me to do something they need a change of rhetoric and some cash. Proper cash. Like they can find for everyone else.

A proper union would be having its members go on strike in these conditions.

 

[Hilly]

As a farmer, it's my job to run a profitable business that enables me to provide for my family, exactly the same as any other business. If that means cutting back because inputs are too expensive then so be it.
It's not my responsibility to feed the nation.

Exactly .

 

[topground]

When a government minister says something like this I can’t help thinking it’s a bit like a prime minister saying he has full confidence in someone a couple of days before sacking him!

Farmers warn Ukraine war will hit UK food prices

Farmers are calling for urgent government action to help them produce enough to feed the nation.

www.bbc.co.uk

When a government minister says ‘ no food shortages’ cue panic buying and hoarding by Joe public ( remember toilet rolls) why? Because nobody believes politicians these days.

 

[nelly55]

I wonder at times if the goverment ,NFU actually pay attention to what they say.Why should it be us that make food affordable.Clearly the fuel suppliers arn’t listerning

 

[teslacoils]

When a government minister says ‘ no food shortages’ cue panic buying and hoarding by Joe public ( remember toilet rolls) why? Because nobody believes politicians these days.

Tbh I've been sticking up on non perishables and tinned goods since November. Nothing crazy. Just an extra one or two items each week, and out into the store.

Obvs when the zombie apocalypse comes, I'll have to defend it from the general public, which I'll do with relish.

 

[le bon paysan]

Bloomberg says Russia to ban most sugar exports, only some to Asia.
I don't know if this effects the UK sugar production or lack of?

 

[digger64]

Dan Wallis, who runs Rookery Farms in Newbury, Berkshire, said he decided this week to sow spring wheat on land that was not due to be planted on until next autumn.
"Given the current crisis in Ukraine the demand for food is ever increasing," he told the BBC.
"There's going to be a shortage of wheat and barley, predominantly wheat, so today we are planting spring wheat into some fallow land which should have remained fallow until next autumn.
"I made the decision in the last week or 10 days - it's the right thing to do."


"...it's the right thing to do!"

I wonder if he has picked up the phone in the last week or 10 days to buy the fertiliser for it at £900 a ton and seed at £600/t (or whatever it is now) to satisfy his moral obligation to produce food.

If he has livestock on the farm its a different matter, could save him !

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Let them eat cake

As long as they can get flour

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Perhaps Minnie is under pressure from the corporate membership worrying about the supply of gravy coming from farmers.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Be prepared to have your farms seized and given to politicians go ahead mates if you don't get your ploughs out and polish up the mouldboards.

Id love to see them try to make that work!

Am I to be sacked or retained as a worker on a competitive pay package?
39 hours a week plus overtime plus night time on call pay, weekends off plus 5 days holiday
The list of things workers are entitled to goes on

 

[digger64]

I wonder at times if the goverment ,NFU actually pay attention to what they say.Why should it be us that make food affordable.Clearly the fuel suppliers arn’t listerning

They are not saying that , they are saying that if the inputs arent availiable or affordable then food will become unavailiable or unaffordable . Its foolish to wish for this situation feeling smug - as the public would steal then or the gov would requisition it !

 

[digger64]

Id love to see them try to make that work!

Am I to be sacked or retained as a worker on a competitive pay package?
39 hours a week plus overtime plus night time on call pay, weekends off plus 5 days holiday
The list of things workers are entitled to goes on

It would be very easy for them as they have all the uncropped land mapped and in schemes so are effectively the tenant anyway , just need a contractor and some inputs