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What do you think is the future of BRITISH FARMING???

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What do you think is the future of BRITISH FARMING???

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  1. As Britain is becoming more and more "controlled" by immigrants from third world countries. I would imagine that the fate of Zimbabwe is on the cards for the UK.


  2. If Recent bulletins are to be believed then the reintroduction of cereal growing will be a big boost to farming, China's new love of pork should be exploited by the animal farming industry, if the UK does not do it someone else will, so the future for those able to grab the opportunities could be rosy and about time too farmers have had a rough deal under the last two successive governments

  3. Farming as we have known it is changing all the time, This government doesn't want farmers, it wants land managers. That's why the subsidies are coming off for rearing stock and incentives are coming in for you just to let the land go back to nature. While subsidies are not the answer, all farmers want is a fair price for their produce, letting land go back to nature isn't the whole solution either. In years to come, at the rate we are going, all our produce will be imported leaving the UK in a vulnerable position. Arable farming I don't know enough about, but there is an awful lot of land that cannot be ploughed out (upland hill farms for example) What lies ahead....well who knows, I don't think anybody knows for certain but as a sheep farmer I'm not overly optimistic.

  4. you'll have to worry about farming in the future, we are all getting to remote from where meat comes from.we'll have to go back to go forwards.

  5. Organic farming maybe biofuels

  6. My cousin leaves in Great Britain and she makes cider vinegar from her son's apple orchard!  She knows about as much about farming as Robert Gates, U.S.A. sec, of defense, even though he was president of Texas A&M.  If you can get the Queen's Guard to lay down their arms and work the land, good luck!

  7. Thanks to the appalling support from government over the last 15/20 years we have witnessed the mercurial decline of our once proud industry,but be very aware that people have to eat and if the powers that be are correct in there climate change predictions then we shall need every last inch of ground and expertise to feed the bludgeoning population of this island.So to answer your question,the future is "ROSEY" but will it be to late and at what price..

  8. Not too good if we have to keep kowtowing to the EU. Crop and dairy farming is much more efficient than the euros, yet their subsidies are killing off British farmers.

  9. It's dead meat. :)

  10. To suffer and die a slow and agonising death.  Just like our industry.

    Buy British.

    Remember fairtrade does NOT support the British farmer.  (What I mean is, it does not protect them from supermarket bullying).  It should ensure a fairprice for all farmers.  Not just third world.

  11. find the quickest and easiest way to money, despite peoples health.

  12. Mmm.. Arable or Livestock? With the increasing price of cereals, there may be some profit in arable farming in the near future. In contrast to the recent past. The future of Livestock seem less clear, it depends on the price that can be attained in retail meat..

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