Sustainable farming.

[7610 super q]

What is it ? I hear the phrase a lot, from DEFRA ministers, to well meaning numpties on my village FB page who've watched 3 episodes of Countryfile......
Traditional mixed farming ? Expensive no till drills, and trampling perfectly good grass into the ground ? Organic farming ? A mix of everything ? A totally new concept binning the previous 1000 years of innovation ?

TBH, the most sustainable for my bank account is renting some ground out for potatoes/ maize, and using traditional sowing methods with existing bought and paid for equipment. None of which seems to sit well with " sustainable " farming.

Is it time to completely retire from farming, Listen to Slade all day, and tinker with old Ford tractors in a shed ?

 

[Bald Rick]

Sustainable to me means having enough credit with the bank to farm for another year

 

[spin cycle]

i have no idea what is meant by 'sustainable' and hate the word meself

 

[buffalo_soldier]

It's just management speak.
Nothing is sustainable if you think about it.

Almost as bad as "future proofing". If I could see the future, I'd of sold the farm and bought apple shares

 

[DRC]

It’s like the term regenerative farming that gets bandied about on here by those that think they’ve reinvented the wheel.

 

[jonnieboy]

You know when put the plough on an old Ford fill up with fuel and head off for a days ploughing
This is not sustainable

 

[wanton dwarf]

What is it ?

Whatever they want it to mean, which may vary on a minute by minute basis.

It's all a matter of "Interpretation of the rules", which apply differently to different people.

I wouldn't be surprised to see certain people get "Delegated Powers" as you get in Planning Permission.


Or in other words - it's very similar to Communism or a Dictatorship.

 

[Kevtherev]

‘Sustainable’ is what our grandads and great grandads and so on did in their day to shape the countryside as we know it.
Nothing new in farming as they say.
Not a fan of the word sustainable would rather the word traditional.
Traditional ford smoking

 

[vantage]

I think you need to ask “stakeholders”, another term I detest.

 

[melted welly]

What is it ? I hear the phrase a lot, from DEFRA ministers, to well meaning numpties on my village FB page who've watched 3 episodes of Countryfile......
Traditional mixed farming ? Expensive no till drills, and trampling perfectly good grass into the ground ? Organic farming ? A mix of everything ? A totally new concept binning the previous 1000 years of innovation ?

TBH, the most sustainable for my bank account is renting some ground out for potatoes/ maize, and using traditional sowing methods with existing bought and paid for equipment. None of which seems to sit well with " sustainable " farming.

Is it time to completely retire from farming, Listen to Slade all day, and tinker with old Ford tractors in a shed ?

File it in the same folder as the phrase “more needs to be done”, favoured by Jeremy Vine callers to show their strength of commitment to the subject whilst simultaneously providing no details on the “how or what”.

 

[czechmate]

It's just management speak.
Nothing is sustainable if you think about it.

Almost as bad as "future proofing". If I could see the future, I'd of sold the farm and bought apple shares

Or better still, planted apple trees

 

[Kevtherev]

Looks good to me @7610 super q

 

[yellowbelly]

I think, if you ask the stakeholders, they will indicate that you could be sustainable if, going forward, you became regenerative.

....oh, don't mind me, I'm just trying to make up a sentence using all the words and phrases that get right up my nose

 

[Kevtherev]

I think, if you ask the stakeholders, they will indicate that you could be sustainable if, going forward, you became regenerative.

....oh, don't mind me, I'm just trying to make up a sentence using all the words and phrases that get right up my nose

You forgot ‘solutions’

 

[GeorgeK]

To be sustainable you need to import as much as possible because emissions in other countries don't count. Offset your remaining emissions by pulling out all your hedges and trees and replacing them with new ones that will sequester carbon as they grow.

 

[melted welly]

To be sustainable you need to import as much as possible because emissions in other countries don't count. Offset your remaining emissions by pulling out all your hedges and trees and replacing them with new ones that will sequester carbon as they grow.

….and build more houses, specifically ones with a life expectancy of about 30yr that’ll fix it

 

[JeepJeep]

Horse & Plough... Grow the feed for the horse and sell the surplus...

Meanwhile in the realworld.

 

[DrWazzock]

Sustainable for me means minimising the number of delivery vans I need to supply me with expensive inputs.
We are ploughing and power harrowing, and drilling this year and quite enjoying it.

 

[Henarar]

What is it ?

farming that is sustainable
to say what sort of farming is sustainable you need a time frame, farming on Earth as it is is sustainable till the 21st of September 2021 at least I would think but no farming on Earth is sustainable forever as the earth won't be around unless we move it.
so we need a time frame ?

 

[Sid]

It’s like the term regenerative farming that gets bandied about on here by those that think they’ve reinvented the wheel.

Regenerative means to restore.

In other words to mend something that's broken.

Admission of guilt is the first step to forgiveness.

It's has no standards, no rules, no checks.
Any one can say the are a regenerative farmer