Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
it seems interesting that we talk of removing subs in the UK while i read this morning about the gigantic levels of subsidy in Japan a country the same size as germany yet gets the same amount of subsidy as the whole of the EU put together??? do people not investigate countries other than NZ on the world market???????????
nobodies ever mentioned this on here before or the fact Japan is only 5th in the OECD subsidy league, in terms of Producer Support Estimate (PSE) switzerland and Norway (62 %), iceland (56 %) and South Korea (49 %) offer their farmers much more in this respect!!!!!!
here in Scotland we are already one of the lowest subsidised countries in the world competing in a subsidy driven world market with inflated costs and artificially low prices yet we also bare one of the highest labour costs with minimum wage approaching £10/hr!!!
Why are we constantly looking at NZ a country with the same latitude as NZ, a country that grows grass 10 months of the year, a country that has poor welfare standards, a country with the same land mass as us yet 1/10th of the people to feed, a country with an extremely poor exchange rate meaning they can export everything?? lets take a look at what others are doing before we ruin the future of our industry
nobodies ever mentioned this on here before or the fact Japan is only 5th in the OECD subsidy league, in terms of Producer Support Estimate (PSE) switzerland and Norway (62 %), iceland (56 %) and South Korea (49 %) offer their farmers much more in this respect!!!!!!
here in Scotland we are already one of the lowest subsidised countries in the world competing in a subsidy driven world market with inflated costs and artificially low prices yet we also bare one of the highest labour costs with minimum wage approaching £10/hr!!!
Why are we constantly looking at NZ a country with the same latitude as NZ, a country that grows grass 10 months of the year, a country that has poor welfare standards, a country with the same land mass as us yet 1/10th of the people to feed, a country with an extremely poor exchange rate meaning they can export everything?? lets take a look at what others are doing before we ruin the future of our industry