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The Disappearance of the All Round Farmer
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<blockquote data-quote="franklin" data-source="post: 4390282" data-attributes="member: 1118"><p>This is not what is needed. What is needed is simply more dosh for those farmers actually on the coal-face of growing food. While the public sector lounges about receiving or expecting an above-inflation pay rise for invisible productivity gains, just think what that means - if almost half the "working" population, and the entire number receiving state pensions and benefits see their income rise above inflation every year, and we know that UK productivitiy is almost stagnant, that means a good number of folk are making nothing each year, and seeing their income decrease after inflation. </p><p></p><p>The rose-tinted view of farming looks back to day when a decent living was made from a small, rented mixed farm. Those days seem to be gone. Those farmers will continue to disappear. Stock will intensify in the main apart from those creating an end product. Farms will get bigger apart from those making their own organic spelt flour. Jobs will focus. Red tape will increase. There will be more people monitoring us, and stricter penalties applied to us. The future for UK farming is an ageing and reducing number of folk working more and more land for less and less per acre. Eventualy the total number of DEFRA / land agents / landlords / EA / RT / etc will actually outnumber farmers and farm workers, and then we will relalise that the attitude to farming here is the same as in countries like Hong Kong and just turn into a shady service-dominated economy which imports all their food. That is how it will be. There is no getting around this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="franklin, post: 4390282, member: 1118"] This is not what is needed. What is needed is simply more dosh for those farmers actually on the coal-face of growing food. While the public sector lounges about receiving or expecting an above-inflation pay rise for invisible productivity gains, just think what that means - if almost half the "working" population, and the entire number receiving state pensions and benefits see their income rise above inflation every year, and we know that UK productivitiy is almost stagnant, that means a good number of folk are making nothing each year, and seeing their income decrease after inflation. The rose-tinted view of farming looks back to day when a decent living was made from a small, rented mixed farm. Those days seem to be gone. Those farmers will continue to disappear. Stock will intensify in the main apart from those creating an end product. Farms will get bigger apart from those making their own organic spelt flour. Jobs will focus. Red tape will increase. There will be more people monitoring us, and stricter penalties applied to us. The future for UK farming is an ageing and reducing number of folk working more and more land for less and less per acre. Eventualy the total number of DEFRA / land agents / landlords / EA / RT / etc will actually outnumber farmers and farm workers, and then we will relalise that the attitude to farming here is the same as in countries like Hong Kong and just turn into a shady service-dominated economy which imports all their food. That is how it will be. There is no getting around this. [/QUOTE]
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