RunToEarth
Well-Known Member
The problems in farming are nothing new, we had foot and mouth in the 60's and the winter of 63, the drought of 76 and innumerable wet summers since.
That doesn't make them any easier to overcome, does it?
It is all part of living in a democracy. If you owned a working farm you may not actually look at it as a capital asset, but more a liability and the inherited millstone around your neck.Of course I have some sympathy for people struggling to make ends meet. At the end of the day lots are sitting on a huge capital asset, a benefit not many people have.
Is it right that subsidy payments, far from going to farmers who need them end up in the pocket of the likes of British Sugar, the Queen, the Duke of Westminster, who gets half a million o year from his UK farms and 6 million Euro's a year from Grosvenor Farms Ltd.
Not sure which page you're on, because subsidy payments DO go to farmers who need them. The landowners of investment holdings claim SFP because they can, and until someone amends the legislation, they will continue to do that, which I agree is counter productive.
Do you honestly believe that? We farm in Lincolnshire and the majority are still on five furrow plough, which I would actually argue that for more than 1500acres is under horsing yourself.Of course lots of farmers over mechanize, pick fashionable systems and breeds of livestock because that's what's taught.
There are people in every walk of life that lack common sense.I remember a farm visit I went to in East Yorkshire where they were re planting hedges, having grubbed out every hedge on the farm the year before to accommodate larger machinery. The wind had erroded most of the light topsoil as a result of the prairie they'd created.
Good because the amount of rubbish you have written so far in this thread I can guarentee your opinion will annoy me and be wildly inaccurate. Holstein are high yielding dairy cows that have a very real place in the UK milk production.t me started on Holstein cows.
K household pays 300 pounds a year almost into the CAP, and it is certainly wasted, I resent that a lot.
Wasted? You have got to be joking. I'm sorry, I really don't think you know a great deal about the industry at all, your original post smacks of ignorance, it just gets worse.