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[Two Tone]

I have not trawled through the whole thread but it seems to me most of this platform is anti NFU? Is this not counterproductive to the industry? Perhaps some who disagree with current tactics of the NFU should try to become part of it to instigate change? Not a five minute job and simplistic I admit.
The other point that strikes me and without real figures to hand, the UK population is, I suspect, further away from rural and agri roots. I am not sure the perception of farmers, on the whole, is very positive with the rest of the population. Plenty on this platform exacerbate the "them and us" attitude.
I am not sure there is any sense of food security from the top down and price rules. Members of our population that recall food hardship are fast dying out.

It is pretty obvious that you haven’t read, let alone trawled through any other threads regarding the NFU either!
I do not know where to start when it comes to how bad they have been for our industries and especially so since Minette Batters has lead it.

It is no longer a Farmers Union.
It is exactly what the Government's nick name for it is: ‘No Fecking Use!’

The ‘Us’ that have realised that are longer part of it.

 

[Still Farming]

Minister rejects calls to pause consultation on ‘unworkable’ SFS - Farmers Weekly

Welsh rural affairs secretary Lesley Griffiths has rejected calls to pause a consultation into future farming policy for Wales, which farmers and

www.fwi.co.uk

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Perhaps some who disagree with current tactics of the NFU should try to become part of it to instigate change?

Change from within you mean?

 

[essexpete]

Change from within you mean?

Yes

 

[mixedfmr]

Yes

If the NFU had a consiense to represent its members, and do right by them, Green tractor would nt have surfaced

 

[Still Farming]

Blocking Dover posts allegedly

 

[Osprey]

It’s made the bbc news

 

[jackrussell101]

Give em he'll boys, God bless them, farmers across the world are being forgotten about by their politicians

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Good for them if there’s anything local I’m happy to help out

 

[Still Farming]

Dover: Slow tractor demo as farmers protest over imports

Farmers opposing foreign imports stage a slow-moving tractor protest on roads around Dover.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[farmerm]

I doubt it.

No. No they won't

I offered a solution/suggestion above, no reply not even a like. It looks like all the fight, passion and motivation has been bred out of people. No only farmers, everyone winges and whines on social media but to get up and do something, nah

It about picking the right battles. I’m not sure what our demands our, what specific actions are we demanding

 

[mixedfmr]

It about picking the right battles. I’m not sure what our demands our, what specific actions are we demanding

You could say we want to farm for food, just like the welsh and scots

 

[farmerm]

You could say we want to farm for food, just like the welsh and scots

But I don’t know that I do. My duty is to provide for my family not try to grow commodities grains cheaper than Eastern Europeans can

 

[primmiemoo]

Eloquently put, the real things worth demonstrating for. Plus things to avoid getting mixed up in ~

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1755919540288958564

 

[mixedfmr]

But I don’t know that I do. My duty is to provide for my family not try to grow commodities grains cheaper than Eastern Europeans can

First duty family, agreed. Maybe the union that the GOV thinks represents us has the answer and discussed it with Gov and BRC, Thats it, farmers pay to sell their carbon sink to the supermarkets so THEY can be appreciated by their customers, or the THEY wont buy our produce.
Result, farmers got less control and less income (poss cheaper grain)

 

[WOODCHIP]

We should take our tractors and protest at Red tractors headquarters they are doing more damage to our industry than the politicians, Jim Mousley needs stoping .

 

[Still Farming]

On bbc new now

 

[Simon Chiles]

On bbc new now

Better coverage on South East Today, you can probably see it on iPlayer. Also it starts about the local council and port authority thinking of taking the government to court over plans to move the checking of lorries to Sevington, 22 miles from the port, in April. The lorry drivers were against it and it also said how much illegal meat and food products they stopped, they were saying that it was obvious that nobody was going to drive out of their way to be voluntarily checked if they had an illegal cargo.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

We should take our tractors and protest at Red tractors headquarters they are doing more damage to our industry than the politicians, Jim Mousley needs stoping .

Trouble is that’s in the Square Mile in London. Even if you’re happy to pay the congestion charge and ULEZ charge, you think you’d get close?

 

[Simon Chiles]

Trouble is that’s in the Square Mile in London. Even if you’re happy to pay the congestion charge and ULEZ charge, you think you’d get close?

There’s no ULEZ charge on a tractor.