Will UK Ag up it’s production

Kevtherev

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Welshpool Powys
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Yale

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Livestock Farmer
This coming year we will be cutting inputs which could lead to a drop in our production.

As I see it pockets will be squeezed and livestock prices will slip because of the perceived expense of red meat (despite it being an essential part of a diet regarding micronutrients).

So I will reduce my exposure to risk and hunker down.

Already sold 100 breeding ewe lambs to slaughter and may still let a few more go.
 

glasshouse

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lothians
Its always doom and gloom where ever you are but I think most are adapting and carrying on, with more compliance work taking up their time.
One difference I see here is, generally if a farmer gets fed up of farming, or doesn't feel they are making money, a For Sale sign goes up and someone else has a go. There's some leased ground but the whole landlord/contract farm thing doesn't seem to work here.
The UK seems to have a lot of land owners that don't want to farm but wont give the ground up either.
I don't think there's any money offered for "green" schemes.
Contract farming only exists becsuse of the tax regime and subsidies paid to non farmers
And becsuse certain individuals like to run about like headless chickens working for the square root of f all
 

kiwi pom

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Location
canterbury NZ
Sustainable Farming Initiative.. being designed by DEFRA to replace BPS area payments on general farmland.. not a great scheme idea thus far!!
You should buy a farm here if its too hard there (y)
Warning. They are expensive and there's a list of things you need to comply with if you want to farm it. The difference is you don't get paid for complying.
Do you think there's no rules here?
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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  • Up to 25%

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    Votes: 30 16.0%
  • 50-75%

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  • 75-100%

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  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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