Why would they want to take part in any discussions (slanging match) on a tuppeny bit forum where anyone can be whatever they want?!
I am not an an actual working farmer btw. I am in fact a gender neutral vegan, meat eating, direct drilling, min till ploughing enthusiast living at the top of a tower block at the the bottom of Scotswood road in Newcastle...
NFU has a press office? They certainly keep a low profile
The NFU press office does a very good job in what is often a difficult world out there.
What would be the point in expending time and energy on this forum which is mostly agriculturally based and often biased anyway.
The message they are trying to get out is to the politicians, the press and social media influencers to ensure the consumers of our products understand what it is the members of the NFU are doing and how much better the food produced here is, and why British farmers should be treated fairly.
They do monitor the engagement every week of what goes out in all forms of media and can calculate the value of this in what would be "advertising" but is "free".
Where does the media go for any comment on food stories? Certainly not TFF or CLA or TFA!!
If the media want a story with pictures then the first call is to the NFU press office which will always be able to find a farmer on the ground who is able to clearly explain the case and do it in all regions if required.
They will also produce briefings on a daily basis for the media who don't have the time or inclination to do research these days.
It is one of the great strengths of the NFU and I for one would not want to see them wasting time on here.
Isn't the clue in the title ?As above ????
Shows a sign of weakness to me as the NFU is representing farmers.
Social media can be a useful tool, but also a mouthpiece for an army of keyboard warriors that can’t even be arsed to get involved at NFU branch level (I don’t either).
That is exactly why!Why would they want to take part in any discussions (slanging match) on a tuppeny bit forum where anyone can be whatever they want?!
I am not an an actual working farmer btw. I am in fact a gender neutral meat eating vegan, a direct drilling, min till ploughing enthusiast living at the top of a tower block at the the bottom of Scotswood road in Newcastle...
People on here can criticise the NFU or Red Tractor, but not many are offering a group visit around their farm or to show their accounts oe record keeping ti show how good they are at their job.
Most of them aren't even that arsed about cheaply. They're more interested in just getting it from one place in one go. If their particular brand of doughnuts has run out on the day they are there there's hell on. If they were really bothered about cheapness they'd trail round lots of different shops or better still markets.Why does everybody care so much ?? The general public doesn’t give a f**k about there food or where it comes from… maybe a small percentage does but that percentage already know…. The general public want food as cheap and easily accessible as possible and they don’t don’t care how they get it no amount of press will ever change that
I think Jeremy Clarkson has probably done more good for British farming in one year than NFU, AHDB and RT have done in the last 20.
Not that I'm knocking all the behind the scenes things that these organisations do that is unseen.
Exactly… everything body is obsessed these days with how the public see us and how we engage with them… the ones that are willing too engage or care about how W they see us don’t need posh tv ads, new paper articles and shut because theyve been engaged for years of there own accord and interests… the rest just want too get on with they’re lives… put your heads down and carry on.. the man who sticks his head out of the trench is the man who gets his head blown offMost of them aren't even that arsed about cheaply. They're more interested in just getting it from one place in one go. If their particular brand of doughnuts has run out on the day they are there there's hell on. If they were really bothered about cheapness they'd trail round lots of different shops or better still markets.
Bless you. Jeremy has you in his enthral, like he has most on this forum. The gullible will be gullible I guess. Love Island is another show for the gullible.