21/11/2024
It doesn’t matter if you own the farm, manage it, rent it, run it, or work on it… it doesn’t matter if you sell tractors and machinery, sell fertiliser and chemicals, sell wearing metal for implements, buy hay and straw for your pets, sell tractor and trailer tyres, buy grain and pulses, sell seeds, trade commodities in a skyscraper in London, a welder fabricator who fixes the odd bit of farm machinery, the person who sells pickups, the machinery manufacturer, the land agent, the agronomist, the accountant, the auctioneer, the feed company, the people who make the food within the mills, the vets, the person who sells by products for animal feed, the general food waste that livestock so gladly eat, the hauliers, lorry drivers, butchers, millers, bakers… the list goes on. A man said to me yesterday, “throw a stone in a pond and watch the ripples go out” this isn’t just affecting farmers, it’ll effect more people and more industry than anyone could ever possibly imagine…. That’s an empty pair of wellies at a farm gate, just one farm, other farms there are so many pairs of wellies that it’s hard to even comprehend… that’s all you’ll have in the end… empty boots where good honest hard work was found. Enjoy the Christmas meal you eat this year, be it turkey, beef, lamb or pork, the veg that goes with it, think of the year long effort that went into producing that… enjoy it, because if this nonsense carries on, one year it’ll be the last. It can’t be any simpler,
No Farms
No food
No future
