startinghandle
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Earlier I just heard the tail end of phonein on radio wales where a farmer's wife talked about the next 5 years with reelected labour government being rough time for Welsh farmers
Welsh farmers in for rough 5 years
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john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
It's been tough since the mad cow fiasco...25 year's ago...?
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Looking back across the border welsh government has been good to its farmers in some ways too, grants/help from farming connect that hasn’t been available in England and up until now most of wales has got off lightly with NVZ ‘s
john432
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- Carmarthenshire
Where did the farming connect funds come from? Creamed off our single farm payments.. who gained most? The consultants...
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
True, they seem to be swinging from one extreme to another, currently one side of the border in with the other side out with fairly similar farming both sides.
borderterribles
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- Location
- South Shropshire
Remind me, how has the Tb valuation been going for you guys in the Principality?
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Speaking of SFP, Wales did better than England with historic based payments.
When sfp first came out I picked up a card from carver knowles at the dairy event showing the difference in payments for a 1 million litre dairy farm over the following 10 years, the difference amounted to 100k in favour of the welsh dairy farmer and during that time this part of England went into an NVZ with no financial help, meanwhile just over the border a 40% grant was available to construct slurry storage via farming connect
Remind me, how has the Tb situation been going for you guys in the Principality?
I’ve amended it, as you clearly haven’t got a clue.
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Trouble is, the different regimes have got us squabbling amongst ourselves about who’s better/worse off, it would be better fir our industry if we were all under the same regime presenting a united case against anything unfair, instead it looks like a case of divided they rule us.
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Wales doesn’t have a monopoly on Tb, as I say, squabbling amongst ourselves
borderterribles
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- Location
- South Shropshire
Well, I think I have. Why should I accept my stock being taken at half their worth whilst farms, half a mile away in Wales, but in the same breakdown cluster area get their individually valued ?
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
No change then, hardly a walk in the park at the best of times.
I’m sorry about your stock, but valuations have fallen hugely here. As an observer of the English Tb situation, it appears they are doing something, this is ABSOLUTELY not the case in Wales.
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Nothings easy with the job BUT stock prices seem to be on the up and holding.
SilliamWhale
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I think the grants have been more generous in England.
SilliamWhale
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The consultants were paid silly money for inane stuff eg soil test reports. And they charged a lot for it, it was really wrong
for now
john432
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire
Even things like a crop spraying course was vastly inflated in Wales...compared to over the border...when I pointed that out...but you'll get 80 percent funding.