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The coming famine

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
Thats nonsense
It means my soil is in better health and I am working with nature rather than battling it daily.

I have learnt how to be proactive rather than reactive with the cheque book!

Nonsense? It's no more "nonsense" than the OP pretending to feed 6 or 7 billion mouths with organic farming. It's a vanity project for the middle classes; 1st world consumers with a fat wallet and a guilt complex about their 'carbon footprint' and ag chems, yet when they're at the doctors they forget their principals and demand triazoles, antibiotics or whatever supposedly evil chemistry that suits.
You'll also struggle to find any farmer that doesn't 'work with nature'. As for being reactive with the chequebook, if you were to ask northern arable farmers how this past harvest and sowing went, they'd probably tell you their yields have never been better, their seed beds have never been better, and their bank account has never looked better.
 

uztrac

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
fakenham-norfolk
I am of the age to well remember the " Ration Book" used for all village shopping from eggs to meat to bread etc etc.
As a special treat mum & dad managed to get a Mars Bar once a month ( Yes, 1 x mars bar per month) this was cut into portions for my brother,mum,dad,and myself.Always after Sunday Lunch.We were the lucky ones as we managed to get chicken to eat along with game when in season and that was it.
 
I remember rationing very well. Also remember seeing my first orange and banana. (My Grandad sister owned a shop).
Since back then we have got used to the Supermarkets ideal fruit/veg/meat. Lucky to get a bit of scrag end once in while. It will be a pleasure to see how some of todays spoilt twits manage.
 

Whitewalker

Member
With fertiliser doubled in price, and possibly unavailable worldwide in 2022 due to factory closures, it doesnt bode well for harvest 2022
Add in the senseless tree planting on arable land and clearance of hill sheep for trees, the loss of pigs to landfill, we could be facing a major shortage of foodstuffs💀 twelve months from now.☠️☠️
The starving will starve more , the money will ensure the rich don’t go hungry .
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
Why?
There are more than enough calories produced in the world.
All the cheap food is doing is causing climate change, producing waste and inefficiency.
Also look at the obesity rates.
And we are eating too many calories of the wrong things and not enough of the right things, too much sugar, carbs, high fructose corn syrup and not enough meat and two/three veggies. I think another reason we are seeing more chronic diseases in the West is because the food we are producing is not nutrient dense, we need to concentrate on nutrient density rather than uniformity and shelf life.

 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
can someone tell me when i can spread muck? im in an nvz
When the ground is dry enough to travel on?

More serious answer, I am sure composting muck then spreading the compost will do far more good, I just have no clue how to compost muck to create something that will really feed the soil biology, and then next question is, will NVZ zone rules apply to biologically active compost too? As I believe the benefit is not in the volume of N, P & K, rather it's ability to stimulate the soil biome to function.
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Moderator
Location
Anglesey
Putin is starting to make the west look like a bunch of incompetents.

Not overly difficult though is it?

Biden shouldn’t be in charge of a public toilet never mind the US
Johnson is a booster who wings everything
Macron is ... well, French
Merkel has gone and the Germans can’t decide what to do now
Who knows who is in charge in Italy
And the rest are irrelevant
 

Martin Holden

Member
Trade
Location
Cheltenham
Not overly difficult though is it?

Biden shouldn’t be in charge of a public toilet never mind the US
Johnson is a booster who wings everything
Macron is ... well, French
Merkel has gone and the Germans can’t decide what to do now
Who knows who is in charge in Italy
And the rest are irrelevant
Well that’s put the world in its place then!
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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