The farming model is broken...

[llamedos]

Advances in technology have driven a 64% increase in agriculture since 1973,Labour productivity has increased year on year but since the 1980s farm outputs have become static.

Agri-Tech East launches report From grass roots to blue skies: a vision for agri-tech.

https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/the-farming-model-is-broken-but-the-future-starts-here/

http://www.agritech-east.co.uk/a-vision-for-agri-tech/

 

[Formatted]

Was at a conference couple of weeks ago that suggested in the next 25 years we need to double yield per hectare worldwide but that average yields have remained largely flat since 2008.

 

[Goweresque]

Advances in technology have driven a 64% increase in agriculture since 1973,Labour productivity has increased year on year but since the 1980s farm outputs have become static.

Agri-Tech East launches report From grass roots to blue skies: a vision for agri-tech.

https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/the-farming-model-is-broken-but-the-future-starts-here/

http://www.agritech-east.co.uk/a-vision-for-agri-tech/

Sounds like another parasite consultant living off the back of farmers to me.........you could play bullsh*t bingo with all the management buzzwords stuffed into those 'reports' (or sales pitches as they should be called).

 

[Campani]

With the amount of food waste, obesity and low farm gate prices. Farming is broken, but producing more food is definitely not the way to fix it. Producing more food may be profitable for the chem and seed companies though!!

 

[Pasty]

With the amount of food waste, obesity and low farm gate prices. Farming is broken, but producing more food is definitely not the way to fix it. Producing more food may be profitable for the chem and seed companies though!!

Bang on. Production is not the problem. Other people will have to solve the actual problem, not farmers.

Meanwhile, we have to make sure we don't hand over all our shekels to snake oil salesmen.

 

[milkloss]

Was at a conference couple of weeks ago that suggested in the next 25 years we need to double yield per hectare worldwide but that average yields have remained largely flat since 2008.

Heard that all before. It's a load of jibber jabber: bet they didn't talk about how our customers will pay for our produce world wide.

Pay for it then we will produce it. Simple really.

 

[wr.]

With the amount of food waste, obesity and low farm gate prices. Farming is broken, but producing more food is definitely not the way to fix it. Producing more food may be profitable for the chem and seed companies though!!

I've said this for years and written it on the forum several times. Not all agreed with me though

 

[Formatted]

Sounds like another parasite consultant living off the back of farmers to me.........you could play bullsh*t bingo with all the management buzzwords stuffed into those 'reports' (or sales pitches as they should be called).

Agritech-East is actually a venture capital group, formed of farmers looking for companies to invest in. The guy who heads it up does it in his spare time, average investment per person is £20,000 and the groups maximum investment is £200,000. They are looking for businesses to invest in

 

[Pasty]

Agritech-East is actually a venture capital group, formed of farmers looking for companies to invest in. The guy who heads it up does it in his spare time, average investment per person is £20,000 and the groups maximum investment is £200,000. They are looking for businesses to invest in

What, so this all about money and personal gain? What a massive surprise.

 

[horizontal]

I wish I had 20k around to chuck at something I'd then have little or no involvement in. Lucky them!

 

[tje]

There is a lot of money swishing about the system looking for a home( decent rate of return on investment ) , but very few growing profitable business

Agritech-East is actually a venture capital group, formed of farmers looking for companies to invest in. The guy who heads it up does it in his spare time, average investment per person is £20,000 and the groups maximum investment is £200,000. They are looking for businesses to invest in

 

[Henarar]

Have you been bashing up your Britains toys again @llamedos ?

 

[llamedos]

Have you been bashing up your Britains toys again @llamedos ?

Damn - sussed

 

[Goweresque]

Agritech-East is actually a venture capital group, formed of farmers looking for companies to invest in. The guy who heads it up does it in his spare time, average investment per person is £20,000 and the groups maximum investment is £200,000. They are looking for businesses to invest in

So why not say so then, instead of pretending to be some sort of all sweetness and light 'we're just here to help' organisation?

I'm fast coming to the conclusion that farm subsidies are the worse thing possible for the farming industry - they attract every parasite, vulture and hanger-on possible. Get rid of subs and I don't think it will be farmers going bust left right and centre, it'll be the agri-business conglomerates and the middlemen who find their money supply dries up.

 

[orchard]

Unfortunately, they'll probably lobby directly to get it.

So why not say so then, instead of pretending to be some sort of all sweetness and light 'we're just here to help' organisation?

I'm fast coming to the conclusion that farm subsidies are the worse thing possible for the farming industry - they attract every parasite, vulture and hanger-on possible. Get rid of subs and I don't think it will be farmers going bust left right and centre, it'll be the agri-business conglomerates and the middlemen who find their money supply dries up.

 

[Formatted]

I'm fast coming to the conclusion that farm subsidies are the worse thing possible for the farming industry - they attract every parasite, vulture and hanger-on possible. Get rid of subs and I don't think it will be farmers going bust left right and centre, it'll be the agri-business conglomerates and the middlemen who find their money supply dries up.

Think you've got an axe to grind and are missing the point. They are offering money for companies to help fix the farming model, nothing to do with subsidies. Often businesses don't just need investment, they need shaping and help developing the products. That 'sweetness and light' you talk about is a vital part of developing a business these days, particularly in the technology sector.

 

[Goweresque]

Think you've got an axe to grind and are missing the point. They are offering money for companies to help fix the farming model, nothing to do with subsidies. Often businesses don't just need investment, they need shaping and help developing the products. That 'sweetness and light' you talk about is a vital part of developing a business these days, particularly in the technology sector.

Can we all have some of this free money then? Or does it come with strings attached, like interest, and repayments, or giving up a % of the business? In which case its nothing to do with 'fixing the broken farming model' and everything about making money for their investors.

 

[ollie989898]

This is a complete joke.

Double production by 2025? Dream on sunshine- if you could get just 5% extra output in places like Russia, USA and Australia, the world would be buried in food for years.

Doubling output in Europe, what with the green movement in France and Germany calling the shots and banning everything in sight? Dream on!