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Where is the NFU etc?
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<blockquote data-quote="warksfarmer" data-source="post: 7805532" data-attributes="member: 192"><p><strong><em>‘’When we consider their inflated membership claims in relation to the whole UK industry we see just how unrepresentative the NFU council actually is. There are, in fact, some 212,000 UK holdings. NFU membership is only 26% of these. The truly astounding misrepresentation is that the NFU claim the number of holdings to be the number of farmers. The NFU’s membership is only 19% of the 294,000 registered commercial British farmers and a mere 11% of the recorded 476,000 farming workforce. A far cry from the "more than 70% of farmers".</em></strong></p><p><em><strong>... What is certain is the NFU is not anywhere close to representing the two thirds of farmers it implies – less than a fifth at best’’</strong></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="warksfarmer, post: 7805532, member: 192"] [B][I]‘’When we consider their inflated membership claims in relation to the whole UK industry we see just how unrepresentative the NFU council actually is. There are, in fact, some 212,000 UK holdings. NFU membership is only 26% of these. The truly astounding misrepresentation is that the NFU claim the number of holdings to be the number of farmers. The NFU’s membership is only 19% of the 294,000 registered commercial British farmers and a mere 11% of the recorded 476,000 farming workforce. A far cry from the "more than 70% of farmers".[/I][/B] [I][B]... What is certain is the NFU is not anywhere close to representing the two thirds of farmers it implies – less than a fifth at best’’[/B][/I] [/QUOTE]
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