The SFI: is it actually sustainable?

[Jemma_]

My name is Jemma, and I am a master’s student at the University of Brighton, studying Environmental Assessment and Management. For my dissertation I am looking into the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

If you are a farmer in England, I would be very interested to hear your opinions on the SFI.

Your participation in the study would involve an interview, to understand your perspective of the SFI, and a brief questionnaire about your farm.

If you are a farmer in England and are interested in taking part, please respond below or feel free to send me a private message for more information.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Fyi, i have your back in oz for you're food requirements, we got plenty to go around.

Ant...

 

[Mc115reed]

Paying people not too farm the land is not sustainable end of discussion

I know of a few big arable farms that have just planted the lot into sfi .. .. nothing sustainable about that

 

[TelesnaAg]

But if uk need more food from oz it drives up prices and makes Ants back pocket get fat.

A happy Ant is a happy world.

Ive got fine black angus cattle ready to go.

We can grow literally anything you need here.

Ant...

 

[spark plug]

SFI has been designed by people who can’t tell the difference between wheat and barley without a picture book. I think there is a place for such schemes in uneconomic field corners but these schemes should not be rolled out on a blanket basis with priority over food security.

 

[Regenerator1]

My name is Jemma, and I am a master’s student at the University of Brighton, studying Environmental Assessment and Management. For my dissertation I am looking into the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

If you are a farmer in England, I would be very interested to hear your opinions on the SFI.

Your participation in the study would involve an interview, to understand your perspective of the SFI, and a brief questionnaire about your farm.

If you are a farmer in England and are interested in taking part, please respond below or feel free to send me a private message for more information.

NO

 

[Badshot]

To be frank.

We as growers are unlikely to go hungry, ever.

However the lunatics running the asylum seem to need to push the country to that point before they'll realise agriculture is the most important industry in the UK..

No farmers, no food, no nothing.

I'm quite ok with it too.

 

[Henarar]

My name is Jemma, and I am a master’s student at the University of Brighton, studying Environmental Assessment and Management. For my dissertation I am looking into the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

If you are a farmer in England, I would be very interested to hear your opinions on the SFI.

Your participation in the study would involve an interview, to understand your perspective of the SFI, and a brief questionnaire about your farm.

If you are a farmer in England and are interested in taking part, please respond below or feel free to send me a private message for more information.

Hi Jemma
Yep I think its sustainable as long as the gov can sustain the payments as its made very little difference to the way I farm and I have been sustaining that for a good few years

 

[Muddyroads]

My first question would be how to define ”sustainable”?

 

[Hilly]

To be frank.

We as growers are unlikely to go hungry, ever.

However the lunatics running the asylum seem to need to push the country to that point before they'll realise agriculture is the most important industry in the UK..

No farmers, no food, no nothing.

I'm quite ok with it too.

They will just import everything, i think they would prefer that anyway and have the countryside as a olay ground.

 

[Devil's advocate]

But if uk need more food from oz it drives up prices and makes Ants back pocket get fat.

A happy Ant is a happy world.

Ive got fine black angus cattle ready to go.

We can grow literally anything you need here.

Ant...

Unless its a drought or a flood, then we have to feel sorry for you.

 

[4course]

have yo

My first question would be how to define ”sustainable”?

have you had a response or do you know cos my reckoning is "nobody knows"

 

[Jackov Altraids]

The current scheme is just an extension of Countryside Stewardship.
It's going to be amalgamated into SFI which is a misnomer, it should remain named CS.

I said from the beginning, the first paragraph should define sustainable farming.
If they don't know what it is, how the hell were they ever going to 'incentivise ' it.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Unless its a drought or a flood, then we have to feel sorry for you.

No no, the country is the size of europe, it never floods or droughts all over, this year i am in drought down in the south but nsw and qld are having a ripper season, also the tropics is good.

Weve got you covered here in the colony, we can support the mother country as it was orginally planned.

You guys feed the birds thats important.

Our processing capacity is all being expanded across many sectors.

Ant...

 

[Henarar]

My first question would be how to define ”sustainable”?

Need to know how long we are talking about.
Its sustainable for a day and most likely for a year or three.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Not a very big area and made even smaller if half of em are eating for 3 people

 

[Henarar]

Not a very big area and made even smaller if half of em are eating for 3 people

must have good foundations to take the weight LOL

 

[soapsud]

No no, the country is the size of europe, it never floods or droughts all over, this year i am in drought down in the south but nsw and qld are having a ripper season, also the tropics is good.

Weve got you covered here in the colony, we can support the mother country as it was orginally planned.

You guys feed the birds thats important.

Our processing capacity is all being expanded across many sectors.

Ant...

Our government snoops will be hugely relieved! Thank you.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

My first question would be how to define ”sustainable”?

SFI should have been simple.
A statement of metrics that define an environmentally sustainable farm.
And then provide the grants/ payments to make that economically sustainable.
It could then have a regime of checks that not only confirmed claims were correct but could award produce with a 'sustainable' label.
It should then look to insist that schools, prisons, hospitals etc. procure a gradually increasing percentage of food that is labelled as such.

 

[DrWazzock]

A scheme that needs £3bn a year can never be sustainable can it? What’s the carbon involved in actually earning the £3bn that’s needed annually to make farming “sustainable”.
It’s a joke from every angle.