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Reply | Swans U21 news
at 20:33 23 Apr 2024
What has happened to Liam Smith and Josh Thomas? |
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Reply | Is this the start of a kick back
at 23:02 20 Feb 2024
We don't get £3000, we get a service that the consultants can charge WG up to that amount. No money is given to the farmers. |
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Reply | Is this the start of a kick back
at 22:40 20 Feb 2024
Farming Connect are an advisory service, they do not give out money.
If he's not paying any tax, then that means he is not making any profit, sadly like the vast majority of Welsh farmers....there is no way he is able to hide £120,000 from the tax man.
He is bending the truth about something in that story. |
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Reply | Welsh Farmers revolt
at 12:36 10 Feb 2024
Have you ever met a poor sparky, builder or plumber?
Majority of farmers these days have either got a job outside of farming or have diversified in some way (which costs a lot of money and is a big risk)
The main problem with the Welsh SFI is that the government havnt published any sort of financial figures that will be paid out for the environmental scheme.
This is meant to be in place to start on Jan 1st, business decisions (especially in agriculture) take years to implement , how can the governement expact farmers to join in the SFI at such short notice.
As with the 10% trees, this will devalue a land owners assets by an estimated 50% on those areas. How would anyone else react if the government told them that had to do something to their house which would take £20,000 of their house price?? |
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Reply | Clarkson's Farm
at 19:08 16 Feb 2023
Most younger/ newer farmers were against Brexit...its just the older ones who didn't know what they were voting for, that push up the numbers |
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Reply | Veganism and Zouma ethical issue
at 07:47 14 Feb 2022
Ploughing or cultivation isn't an accident either, farms know the deaths that it will cause.
I don't think you understand the farming system in the UK, where the vast majority of beef or lamb is grass fed only. This is because there are huge parts of the country that can only grow grass. Crops and veg would fail.
The animals are eating grains or roots in some farming systems but these are generally business that have specific contracts to take by products or waste from supermarkets.
You need a mixed farm with diverse crop rotation to survive, having grains or veg for many years in the same fields , leads to massive problems such as insecticides, herbicides and fungicides being over used, and becoming resistant.
Just look into the dust bowel in the USA during the 30's , growing grans for years on years and the soil gets so bad it literally blows away.
You need agricultural systems that involves animals and crops. |
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Reply | Veganism and Zouma ethical issue
at 10:35 13 Feb 2022
But it's not by accident.
I spray my fields to kill all the insects, then I leave it about 3 weeks for the numbers to grow back up to unacceptable levers, then I spray insecticides again, and so on and so on. This is a cycle that happens every spring and summer everywhere over the world. It's not an accident. It's part of the production process.
Same as rodent control in grain stores, same as shooting birds that eat on the crop.
More animals die to produce grains, roots or vegetables then to produce meat in the UK.
It definitely isn't an accident either.
It's a similar argument with soya and rainforest destruction, whilst the majority of the actual soya plant goes into animal feed. The main income is gained from the production of soya oils, the actual soya meal that goes into animal feed is the byproduct. If human stopped using soya oil, the soya meal would stop instantly as the cost of it would be way to high to give it to animals. Yet the animals get blamed for soya production. 🤔 |
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Reply | Veganism and Zouma ethical issue
at 08:57 13 Feb 2022
The reason it goes for animal feed is because its deemed not good enough for human consumption.
In an ideal situation every farm would be mixed and grow everything from veg to meat, but due to the tiny margins that are achieved from producing foods, that the majority of farmers have to specialise into specific systems that suit their farms, in Wales this is normally to grow grass and produce meat.
If I were to produce meat on my farm, I would produce about 300 lambs annually, that's 300 deaths per year. As its an arable farm my guess would be that MILLIONS of animals die every year. And I KNOW this happens, and I accept it will always happen for me to produce food. |
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Reply | Veganism and Zouma ethical issue
at 08:10 13 Feb 2022
When I spray my crops, the whole intention of this is to kill all the insects that are eating my crops.
You mentioned a dog crossing the road and being hit by a car, but what of there was hundreds of dogs just sat in the road and you drove straight through them all.
The main reason farmers in Wales, and the UK produce lamb / beef /pork and chichen is because that's what their farm is best suited for.
Financially the best returns are made from vegetables then grains then milk then meat.
The reason most farmers produce meat is that the soils aren't good enough and the weather isn't consistent enough to produce vegetables on a large sustainable scale. What Wales is perfect at growing is Grass!!
Quick question for you....what your opinion on rodent eradication? So in my grain store, where i hold my grains for months at a time until the processors are ready to take it, should I stop using all the rat poisons that I need to keep numbers under control.? |
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Reply | Veganism and Zouma ethical issue (n/t)
at 20:27 12 Feb 2022
When I'm ploughing my fields I KNOW that millions of animals are being destroyed every time my tractor goes up and down the field.
I KNOW that when I use my sprayer to spray a field with insecticides that billions are dieing, that's the whole point of spraying.
I KNOW that when I harvest my grain that loads of rodents and larger animals like foxes get caught in the thrasher and go through the machine, coming out in millions of pieces.
But I still do this every harvest.
You cannot have food that doesn't destroy animal lives, but if you choose lamb or beef etc, then one animals dies to produce food for one person, when it's grains, vegetables or fruits it's millions that die for one person.
On the question of my grain being fed to animals, in a perfect world my grain would be of a standard that its fit for human consumption, because I get paid a premium to do this. However in Wales, with the climate we have only a very small percentage makes the grade and the next best option for me financially is to sell for animal feed. [Post edited 12 Feb 2022 20:50]
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Reply | Veganism and Zouma ethical issue
at 15:16 12 Feb 2022
So when I use chemicals, plough and cultivate my fields to grow oats, barley or wheat, how many mice/rats/voles/ worms/frogs/toads am I allowed to cut in half or how many foxes/rabbits/badgers dens am I allowed to destroy before I should stop to consider the destruction that I'm doing in producing food for a vegan society. |
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