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<blockquote data-quote="Humble Village Farmer" data-source="post: 8117390" data-attributes="member: 142541"><p>Let's look at this rationally.</p><p></p><p>The thing is that most of the general public don't understand the economics or the practicalities of farming. They specialise in other stuff which we don't know so much about either.</p><p></p><p>This happens to be about skylarks. They are easy to identify and crucially, they survive and thrive in open farmed landscapes. The public see them, they think they're all going to die because they a mower in the field (despite having survived and thrived under this type of farming since it began). Something must be done.</p><p></p><p>They haven't thought about the rotation, cattle nutrition, cash flow, input costs, species, varieties timing and weather. All they care about is the one species of bird that is probably going to continue to do ok in this particular farming system.</p><p></p><p>The farmer has got enough to think about, so if he sees the skylarks, he hopes they'll bounce back as usual. He has a business to run supplying food which the protesters will probably buy on their way home, probably from a supermarket which says it does lots for the environment.</p><p></p><p>Despite the supermarket's claims I doubt there is a farmer in the country who doesn't like to see and hear a skylark, never mind deliberately harming one. It's just that there isn't much room for the environment in the corporate food system.</p><p></p><p>Of course every problem has a solution and as this comes down to money, what about the nice protesters putting some money up for habitat creation to take some of the onus off the farmer? We all know the government offers this type of thing but not all farmers think it's worthwhile.</p><p></p><p>Maybe there's room for some type of crowd funding for habitat creation, maybe lumped together elsewhere so smaller farms don't lose economies of scale?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Humble Village Farmer, post: 8117390, member: 142541"] Let's look at this rationally. The thing is that most of the general public don't understand the economics or the practicalities of farming. They specialise in other stuff which we don't know so much about either. This happens to be about skylarks. They are easy to identify and crucially, they survive and thrive in open farmed landscapes. The public see them, they think they're all going to die because they a mower in the field (despite having survived and thrived under this type of farming since it began). Something must be done. They haven't thought about the rotation, cattle nutrition, cash flow, input costs, species, varieties timing and weather. All they care about is the one species of bird that is probably going to continue to do ok in this particular farming system. The farmer has got enough to think about, so if he sees the skylarks, he hopes they'll bounce back as usual. He has a business to run supplying food which the protesters will probably buy on their way home, probably from a supermarket which says it does lots for the environment. Despite the supermarket's claims I doubt there is a farmer in the country who doesn't like to see and hear a skylark, never mind deliberately harming one. It's just that there isn't much room for the environment in the corporate food system. Of course every problem has a solution and as this comes down to money, what about the nice protesters putting some money up for habitat creation to take some of the onus off the farmer? We all know the government offers this type of thing but not all farmers think it's worthwhile. Maybe there's room for some type of crowd funding for habitat creation, maybe lumped together elsewhere so smaller farms don't lose economies of scale? [/QUOTE]
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