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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 8095746" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>farmers love to moan about the weather, myself included, its just our nature. But we live in a green and pleasant land, without the climatic extremes. But we can suffer from to wet/cold/dry/hot, spells, simply because they are not 'normal', and we are unprepared.</p><p></p><p>And it is not possible to be totally self sufficient in growing our own food. We are an over populated island, that exists by trading, with the rest of the world, and been pretty good at it, The 'EU' 50yrs, reduced the reliance of trading elsewhere, with the withdrawal from the EU, we have to start trading with the world again.</p><p></p><p>We are a wealthy country, and countries want to trade with us again, that is beyond doubt, the number of new, or rolled over, trade deals, that have been done, proves that. But those deals, require reciprocal trade, and for many countries, their export, has traditionally been food, we export services, machinery etc, and import food. And UK govs, over the last few 100 yrs, have had policy, that matches that trade, or put another way, those goods being exported, are more important than farm produce here. And who is to say, that is wrong policy ? It probably is good policy, the % of people that work, in industry, is much greater than those that work in agriculture, why should we be 'special' ?</p><p></p><p>We are special, only when events occur, that interfere with food imports, WW2 a classic example. Pretty certain we won't see food convoys being torpedoed though. But the world is no longer as safe as it was, and that will have repercussions, and then we have climate change.</p><p></p><p>As farmers, we adapt, with lots of moaning, to new farming conditions, l actually think we are experts at adapting to new 'conditions'. Farming is now at a changing point, we see which way the guv want us to go, and we see food inflation as well, the two don't sit together, so farming is wobbling between the two, not quite sure which one will come out, on top.</p><p></p><p>Its really the uncertainty that we are 'scared' of, farming is a long term business, living in a short term world, and basically, that is the problem.</p><p>However, we have advantages over other industries, nobody can do without food, virtually everything else, they can. We know global food production, is running on 'just about enough' status, and we know that, a weather disaster, in any major production area, now, with the Ukraine situation, will cause hyper food inflation. The problem is, the guv doesn't realise that.</p><p></p><p>So we will all revert to type, and have a good old moan, but rapidly adapting to the 'new' trading conditions, we have done that many many times, very successfully, and will do it this time, when we know what they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 8095746, member: 86168"] farmers love to moan about the weather, myself included, its just our nature. But we live in a green and pleasant land, without the climatic extremes. But we can suffer from to wet/cold/dry/hot, spells, simply because they are not 'normal', and we are unprepared. And it is not possible to be totally self sufficient in growing our own food. We are an over populated island, that exists by trading, with the rest of the world, and been pretty good at it, The 'EU' 50yrs, reduced the reliance of trading elsewhere, with the withdrawal from the EU, we have to start trading with the world again. We are a wealthy country, and countries want to trade with us again, that is beyond doubt, the number of new, or rolled over, trade deals, that have been done, proves that. But those deals, require reciprocal trade, and for many countries, their export, has traditionally been food, we export services, machinery etc, and import food. And UK govs, over the last few 100 yrs, have had policy, that matches that trade, or put another way, those goods being exported, are more important than farm produce here. And who is to say, that is wrong policy ? It probably is good policy, the % of people that work, in industry, is much greater than those that work in agriculture, why should we be 'special' ? We are special, only when events occur, that interfere with food imports, WW2 a classic example. Pretty certain we won't see food convoys being torpedoed though. But the world is no longer as safe as it was, and that will have repercussions, and then we have climate change. As farmers, we adapt, with lots of moaning, to new farming conditions, l actually think we are experts at adapting to new 'conditions'. Farming is now at a changing point, we see which way the guv want us to go, and we see food inflation as well, the two don't sit together, so farming is wobbling between the two, not quite sure which one will come out, on top. Its really the uncertainty that we are 'scared' of, farming is a long term business, living in a short term world, and basically, that is the problem. However, we have advantages over other industries, nobody can do without food, virtually everything else, they can. We know global food production, is running on 'just about enough' status, and we know that, a weather disaster, in any major production area, now, with the Ukraine situation, will cause hyper food inflation. The problem is, the guv doesn't realise that. So we will all revert to type, and have a good old moan, but rapidly adapting to the 'new' trading conditions, we have done that many many times, very successfully, and will do it this time, when we know what they are. [/QUOTE]
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