This guy!?

Robt

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I'll admit. upon first reading it i reacted like most. However seeing your twitter Adam. I have re read it. You often speak very well and i respect your views.
I actually think its a good idea!
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
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Suffolk
I'll admit. upon first reading it i reacted like most. However seeing your twitter Adam. I have re read it. You often speak very well and i respect your views.
I actually think its a good idea!
I did the same when I read the headline! But it is not actually about re wilding. Seems to me to be about farming in a more ecologically friendly and beneficial way. Rather than just pumping inputs and making other people rich.
 

Robt

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Suffolk
I'm probably being thick, but did you mean the rewilding idea was good?
This particular line. If this is what they are planning then, yes i agree it is a good idea.
“not stopping farming, it’s fitting farming systems into natural systems so we can restore biodiversity”
 

ImLost

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Not sure
What they are thinking of doing to the poorer parts of the farm rather than intensive farming. Thats how i have read it? Am i wrong?
Sorry I replied before you answered my question! Yes, in principle the idea is a nice one, minus bison and lynx. However, if you knew they state of the Somerleyton estate and how it was managed, suddenly in reality, it doesn't seem all that great. I don't fancy following directions from a snob of a landowner who distances himself reality and keep his own estate in order.
 

Hampton

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BASIS
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Shropshire
Another load of toilet paper material from the Guardian .
Good for the 3 so called farmers who are driving around in there fancy Range Rover and enjoying there adventures on the ski slopes .
Don’t think this is how most farmers live there lives .
I don’t understand the whole “farmers shouldn’t drive nice cars or go on holiday nonsense. It’s ridiculous.
I was driving through town yesterday and a nurse in uniform pulled onto the roundabout in front of me driving a brand new Range Rover Velar. My thoughts were a) nice car, fair play. B) nurses must earn a decent wage as that’s a nicer car than mine.
My thoughts weren’t bloody nurses driving round in range rovers and going on holiday!
 

Sid

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Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
I don’t understand the whole “farmers shouldn’t drive nice cars or go on holiday nonsense. It’s ridiculous.
I was driving through town yesterday and a nurse in uniform pulled onto the roundabout in front of me driving a brand new Range Rover Velar. My thoughts were a) nice car, fair play. B) nurses must earn a decent wage as that’s a nicer car than mine.
My thoughts weren’t bloody nurses driving round in range rovers and going on holiday!
£450/month
Easy come easy go!
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
I don’t understand the whole “farmers shouldn’t drive nice cars or go on holiday nonsense. It’s ridiculous.
I was driving through town yesterday and a nurse in uniform pulled onto the roundabout in front of me driving a brand new Range Rover Velar. My thoughts were a) nice car, fair play. B) nurses must earn a decent wage as that’s a nicer car than mine.
My thoughts weren’t bloody nurses driving round in range rovers and going on holiday!
What annoys me is when farmers, with large amounts of inherited land claim they can’t farm without subsidies. But still have 3 kids at boarding school and all the range rovers etc. It’s like that stuff is a good given right and doesn’t even emerge their minds. I’ve heard it an an nfu meeting. Unreal.
 

Hampton

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Shropshire
What annoys me is when farmers, with large amounts of inherited land claim they can’t farm without subsidies. But still have 3 kids at boarding school and all the range rovers etc. It’s like that stuff is a good given right and doesn’t even emerge their minds. I’ve heard it an an nfu meeting. Unreal.
That’s true although it’s also true that every industry receives subsidies or benefits of some kind, so I don’t think farmers should be ashamed of subsidies. It should be capped though, that’s for certain.
 
Would this have been a very different article if it had been written in the Telegraph instead of the Guardian?

I'm not suggesting that the leftards at the Guardian have hijacked the landowners' intentions...
 
I did the same when I read the headline! But it is not actually about re wilding. Seems to me to be about farming in a more ecologically friendly and beneficial way. Rather than just pumping inputs and making other people rich.


That's a personal point of view.

If you are farming for food and not farming efficiently then by definition you have to use more land than necessary to produce the food you need.

That excess land use could have been used soley for wildlife.

But that doesn't fit the agenda does it ?
 

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