50 Years of Photographing Farmers

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Thanks. I didn't listen, but I went to his website & engaged with several of the videos. Those beautiful longhorns!

Ps it was interesting to note a connection being made between the modern prevalence of silage as winter feedstuff and the size of the badger population, accepting the last as a TB vector transmitting to cattle. This may be paralleled by the production of slurry rather than manure as cattle waste owing to changes in management of feed & waste, resulting in hitherto unseen runoff issues into rivers, etc.

There won't be many farmers on here, but it's where our food comes from so it's an area where economics meets the environment - & rightly should be of interest & concern to government & all of us! And I don't suppose that supermarket chains are any help at all, given their drive to rock bottom. There, I've said my piece. :-(
 
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droj said:
Thanks. I didn't listen, but I went to his website & engaged with several of the videos. Those beautiful longhorns!

Ps it was interesting to note a connection being made between the modern prevalence of silage as winter feedstuff and the size of the badger population, accepting the last as a TB vector transmitting to cattle. This may be paralleled by the production of slurry rather than manure as cattle waste owing to changes in management of feed & waste, resulting in hitherto unseen runoff issues into rivers, etc.

There won't be many farmers on here, but it's where our food comes from so it's an area where economics meets the environment - & rightly should be of interest & concern to government & all of us! And I don't suppose that supermarket chains are any help at all, given their drive to rock bottom. There, I've said my piece. :-(
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OUR food? I'm not trying to be critical but 95% of meat products (lamb, beef) produced in Wales is exported!
 
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OUR food?
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'Our' as in humans on the planet.

And as for percentages it depends who you trust for your figures, for instance;
"The UK currently exports 34% of its lamb production. Of that 94% goes to the EU.
And we export around 18% of our beef production. Of this, 84% goes to the EU." (2019)

I wouldn't necessarily count traffic from Wales to England, Scotland or Ulster as an 'export'.
 
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droj said:
'Our' as in humans on the planet.

And as for percentages it depends who you trust for your figures, for instance;
"The UK currently exports 34% of its lamb production. Of that 94% goes to the EU.
And we export around 18% of our beef production. Of this, 84% goes to the EU." (2019)
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I did get those figures (for 2024, I think) from the Welsh Government .But yeah, I see what you meant.
 
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