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Nope, not any more. The veg industry is now in the hands of vast agri companies.
If you look at satellite pics of southern Spain It looks to be totally covered in plastic.
Nope, not any more. The veg industry is now in the hands of vast agri companies.
Southern Spain , that's a small part of Almeria , it is an eyesore admittedlyIf you look at satellite pics of southern Spain It looks to be totally covered in plastic.
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There are some very big players for sure but a lot of them came from quite humble beginnings. The thing about vegetables is it’s a high risk unsupported business that you can start with nothing and make your way upwards. We started Lowland in 2010 and it’s now a multi million pound business.
Southern Spain , that's a small part of Almeria , it is an eyesore admittedly
I watch Adam Henson so I can see what kit I have bought him via TV licenceI watch Adam Henson so I can see all the kit I haven't got:
New sheds
New pickup
New tractors
New yard
New gator
New bull
etc
Andalucia is 21 million acres78,000 acres of plastic in Almeria alone is not that small.
I watch Adam Henson so I can see all the kit I haven't got:
New sheds
New pickup
New tractors
New yard
New gator
New bull
etc
Probably all on finance anyways
I can’t stand him but do admire his business acumen!
You must have been to some seriously bad farms because not many could survive like that!Trouble is if they showed what real farming is about no one would buy British food or even any food .. for example:
Dairy/beef farm - dead calves on the yard, cows that can't walk properly, cows with mastitis, slurry running into ditches, dehorning cattle, difficult calving, dead calves again, castrating, hundreds of bad luck incidents broken legs, cattle fighting etc
Sheep farmer, sheep being mauled by dogs, sheep being fudgeing stupid and just die for no reason, foot rot, maggots on there tails, crows pecking lambs eyes out, all the antibiotics used to keep a sheep alive...
Arable farm- showing the out of touch general public what we put on the land, human manure, chicken manure etc, all the herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, roundup, artificial fertilisers....
So in my opinion keep it warm and cosy as that keeps us in a job
You must have been to some seriously bad farms because not many could survive like that!
Aye, we had similar on Tyne tees TV. In the days where you made an effort to watch the farming prog. We also had proper farming journalists on the local paperMany years ago there was a "Real" farming TV programme.It was on Anglia and called Farming Diary it was hosted by Oliver Walston & David Richardson,A programme made by farmers for farmers.It was not all luvvie nonsense that is streamed currently to city audiences.
Farming only decent stuff on TV these days. I just hope it doesn't encourage lots of wealthy city folk to come out and push any starter type farms out of the reach of genuine young entrants. Watched autumn watch for a minute tonight until I saw some one I didn't like ...
Clips them..? Cuts the feckers right off, I hope'Autumn watch' for me means 'Autumn no-watch' i.e. switch off. Sorry Chris, the sooner the new Beeb Director Tim Davie clips your wings the better