Why is grade 2 agricultural land not being farmed for food?

hoff135

Member
Location
scotland
I don't think we will see any change in course until we see actual starvation and mass public unrest.

Food just getting a bit more expensive and a bit of disquiet in the country ain't going to cut it.

Majority of people would not see the connection between reforestation, house building on farmland and shortages. Brains aren't developed enough for that.
 

stewart

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Horticulture
Location
Bay of Plenty NZ
Grade 2 land that has bben farmed for food for over 100 years, at some time by my family, is now in the hands of Packham and his cronies. Can the world sustain this stupidity?
If Packham and his cronies buy the land they can do what they want with it. If they decide not to farm it then this can only be good for those farmers that are left producing, the laws of supply and demand will eventually rule.
 

arcobob

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Location
Norfolk
If Packham and his cronies buy the land they can do what they want with it. If they decide not to farm it then this can only be good for those farmers that are left producing, the laws of supply and demand will eventually rule.
Agreed, but they don`t buy the land, they rely on government (public) money to landowners to satisfy the green lobby. Who can blame the farmers in these times when inputs are soaring and the risks high when it comes to crop production. Packham then gets a spot on prime time television where he can extoll the virtues of his campaigning. It is low cost and very appealing but at times full of contrived information and is run on the back of a threat to our immediate survival.
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
The problem with letting things go to the point of food shortages and riots is that it isn’t so easily or quickly put right. The social and political upheavals that occur lead to more financial instability and investment dries up. Such damage can take a generation of pain to put right.
For the above reason I have nothing but contempt for the politicians who play fast and loose with our food security. It’s much better to be a little over capacity in food, energy etc than to be under capacity and risking a crisis. So far they’ve “got away with it” but things really are stretched to the limit now.
Time to abandon rewilding, ELMS, landscape recovery etc and get the fundamentals like self sufficiency in food and energy right.
 

arcobob

Member
Location
Norfolk
Send an email to Jeremy Clarkson with some past
photos of its productivity and its history.
He seems to be the only man UK farming has with a big enough voice.
Unfortunately I have no past photos but could take some present ones of the acres of rubbish stretching into the distance.
 

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
Why have a go at the green lobby when there are plenty of farmers willing to take Government money to do the same. There are 150 acres down our fen ruined by a large farmer ( host of the cereals event for several years) and several hundred more acres of black fen land in the area that was left as ‘wildlife habitat’. If there’s money available people will take it.
As for Clarkson isn’t he taking Government money for some environmental schemes.
 

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