Hilly
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Still ongoing, there's an Irish company developing fly protein currently - maggot farms could be very sustainable.
Still ongoing, there's an Irish company developing fly protein currently - maggot farms could be very sustainable.
No.Would that qualify as vegan??
A feed merchant told me 3 years ago they were looking into insects for protein for animal feed, could it spread disease ?
Thank goodness for that!Still ongoing, there's an Irish company developing fly protein currently - maggot farms could be very sustainable.
Edited to add: as feed, not for humans.
There's multiple firms working with black soldier fly in the UK.Still ongoing, there's an Irish company developing fly protein currently - maggot farms could be very sustainable.
Edited to add: as feed, not for humans.
I think that the land ploughed with horses would have been more like todays min till than tractor ploughed land in terms of depth and dont forget they had to grow feed for the town/transport horses too out of the 30% of land needed for themThey have gone because we have been burning irreplaceable diesel as an easy fix, but burning fossil fuel is a lot less sustainable than feeding a horse on oats and hay grown on the farm. With less ploughing and more direct drilling I don’t reckon I’d need as many horses as my grandfather needed. And they can turn on the headland without treading on the swedes.
wasnt it more a case of needing more food /land for people than sustainability financial or otherwise at the time possibly ?It and its replacements eat a third or more of the available land holding if used for work on the land. It was always the case and always will be. That was sustainable when labour was cheap and produce expensive, however it has disappeared precisely because it was not sustainable. It never will be viable again in future. It has failed the basic sustainability test. What alternatives may be used in future is anybody's guess but it certainly will not be the horse.
That's very true Cowabunga. The govt doesn't seem to have learnt the lessons from the start of ww1 and ww2, when the UK was depending upon a lot of imported food. Looks like they are getting ready to push uk farmers and farming "off a cliff".Great, assuming you will have that choice. It may be that imports will replace most of the very much reduced and uncompetitive [through legislation] UK produce. This will allow the required UK emissions target boxes to be ticked while keeping you fed. Remember that we are led by people whose attitude is "fudge business" which effectively means 'fudge UK farmers' in this context.
well they should tax them more then, anything else would be hypocriticalThey already tax the running of quad bikes. Some 70% of the cost of the fuel they consume is tax.
'Beth ydi hon? 'Not me mate! All bottom feeders and slimy critters are out and so is cucumber.
I read once about the landlord of a coaching inn in Croydon having over 700 horses on his books. Not all working of course as a proportion would always be resting, due to foal etc..I think that the land ploughed with horses would have been more like todays min till than tractor ploughed land in terms of depth and dont forget they had to grow feed for the town/transport horses too out of the 30% of land needed for them
Everything is possible though and just requires a different mindset sometimes.I agree - but you only need to read the posts in the holistic agriculture threads to realise it will be like trying to turn the Queen Elizabeth with a Coffee stirer.
You need animals for those and there aren't going to be any.Blood meal, feather meal......
Everything is possible though and just requires a different mindset sometimes.
I don't think you had to follow football with all the headlines this week it was the main story for 3 days!I don’t follow football so I don’t know sorry .
How much time do you spend writing on tff ?I don't know how you find the time !Are you on furlough?I'm not telling you what to do. I'm telling you what current policies and trends are and trying to explain what it means to you if they are carried through. What you do or don't do about it is your business. In fact I don't really care if you agree or not but don't come back in three or ten year's time and say your weren't warned.
I really do hope that policies and the rhetoric will change but the train has already left the station and it currently seems unstoppable.
The protein content of 45% urea fertiliser is about 280% if I remember correctly. This may puzzle some people but I can assure them that it is in that region.You need animals for those and there aren't going to be any.
I don't think you guys realise that proteins don't have to come from other proteins.
They are comprised of C, H, O, and N, all to be found in the air, which is free at the mo'.
A free feedstock, handy.
don’t read papers or watch much tv really .I don't think you had to follow football with all the headlines this week it was the main story for 3 days!
Less time than you think because I only read and contribute to a tiny fraction of topics. Ones that interest me.How much time do you spend writing on tff ?I don't know how you find the time !Are you on furlough?
don’t read papers or watch much tv really .
Eh not quite , you will have to explain that as well lolIs your name Frodo by any chance