As you know Olly, I'm an advocate of farmer's farming, growing food for the nation, agree we have to be mindful of nature, but hedge management, ditch and water management and wild margins Seems once again, government are encouraging farmer's to stop food production and rely on imports, otherwise they'd be more willing to put sfi money into the waterways to prevent food and wildlife loses I just hope the resilient farmer's continue to produce and the government start to look at the populous and their requirements Keep up the great work ALL Geoff
Other way around, it's u who doesn't understand the balance of life or the planet u live on. look at the weather, why u think it's been so bad. 😂 Don't be a 🦍
I’m all for helping wildlife but I feel the government needs to put subsidising food production top of the list , not feeding birds or giving up good food producing land for subsidised solar fields , this country has the ability to be self sufficient regarding food production rather than relying on imports and that’s what we should be pushing for
Hi Olly I have a mixed farm cattle and cereals if the government wants flowers why not grow them good break crop.I am going into some SFI and cutting down on cow numbers Good program keep up the good work.Cheers from Cornwall. I seen you at the RCS last year.👍🤠
Although the SFI is grown or the winter bird seed, as you say the bees are all over the flowers so it a positive thing for pollinators. This is good in turn for crops so it seems a great idea. A good insurance policy for you Olly.
Got be some common sense with sfi, rewilding subsidies, what happens when farms think bugger this it’s just as profitable and less work than grafting to do food production
Hi regarding covercrops or bird covercrops, They all come at a cost ie winter food for slugs letherjackets , all will creat havock to folling crops which must be speayed ,crows pigeons attack emerging crops
SFI is certainly much better than rewilding going forward. The latter is such a disaster for food production. love the videos as an ex farmer. never was an easy choice but it seems harder these days!
Olly, we are all struggling with the un-squarable circle that is sustainable food production. I view the problem as trying to produce food in an environment that needs to be sustained. Particularly carbon positively, if the food we produce has to ‘borrow’ from the ‘bank of carbon’ then we need to strive to adjust this. The birdseed plots, mixed crops, fallows, long rotations, reduced chemical and artificial inputs, low food miles etc etc, all help with that aim. This, of course, comes with lower yields, harder, less predictable outcomes and higher food costs. If the aim is to produce food and try and be sustainable/protect the environment, we need to acknowledge that food needs to priced at its true (environmental) cost. This is an obviously unpalatable situation, probably impossible, hence the un-squarable circle.
As a farmer it is out job to grow food just because people are influenced by the tv media and in turn the government has imposed this policy that we are to be park keepers. The lesson learned during war 2 have been forgotten, it is a wise policy to grow our own food.
With out Nature, all we are dust, Nature is disappearing at serious rate in the last 20 years ( fact) nsects. A planet with 10 Billion people & no Nature is not sustainable. A lot of the older people in our world, don't understand Nature & the balance of life.
Big farms need to stand with small farms. Once the small go they'll be after the bigger and so on! Weather be a lot better off they stop spraying barium, aluminium, strontium and other chemicals.
Farmers have been turned into beggars for the entertainment of fools. How can an industry like farming have arrived at this point. The people who are creating this situation of tree hugging, flower power department will rue the day they have compromised this very dear and honourable profession.
Sfi best thing to happen for years massive support now , got whole farm in 4 payments over year no more Chem or fert bills better than 4t /acre wheat 👍
Farmers feed the world. We need to acknowledge and thank farmers for the food we consume each and every day. Yes, we can import however, have you noticed how Local farmers markets are growing in popularity? We can get local, farm to plate products. This channel gets more informative and educational as it develops - Congrats on 11K. Fantastic to see the upcoming generation acknowledge/know the struggles they will be taking on as farmers. Not sure about subsidy Olly
U need some education lad 😂, a planet with 10 Billion + people & no Nature, is not possible. In the last 20 years insect, bird etc numbers dropping, weather is changing & I'd say your loving that in the UK, all because of people.nature does not need people, we most cwr3nees nature & if u were educated about the balance of life, then u might understand that
Because if u educate your self on how your planet works & the balance of nature works, u would understand the importance of insects & birds, why do u think the weather is been so bad ??? 😂, because of us
Same as register chickens! They need to be told to f off. But everyone's got to do it? No good going off half cocked as they say. Needs to happen soon as we're running out of time!
i think livestock farmers have done better than arable farmers this year.......grass is a less sensitive crop to grow........maybe you need to be more of a mixed farming farmer olly put those fields that keep flooding into grass and keep some cattle/sheep use your straw to bed cattle then have the muck to put back out on the fields.........mixed farming spreads your risks........if you have a wet year its good for grass and livestock and if its a dry year its better for the arable side
Give you arable men something to do in winter instead of being in the workshop with the paint brush 😂😂😂. Seriously though it always used to be pigs tied in with arable. When corn was cheap feed it to the pigs and vice versa. A lot to be said for a mixed farm, spread the losses 😂
Steve - There are many blogs devoted to ploughing matches. This is the REAL country file talking, showing, highlighting the problems, issues, advances in Farming Practices with REAL farming folk discussing Farming Life
Some farmers need education on how nature works & the balance of life. Nature is disappearing at an alarming rate. We need nature to survive, nature certainly doesn't need us. We are changing the face of the planet & not for the better ( in the last 30 years) ( including the weather). Fact. Native American saying =. Wen the blood in your veins returns to sea & the earth in your bones to the ground, perhaps then u will remember, that this land does not belong to u, it is u hu belong to the land ( fact). Everything people do with the land now, is everyone else's business, because we all want to live. That's my rant finished 😎
Absolutely not good fat pheasants this land has a shock coming and MrPutin is more than capable of delivering it, never seen a farmer on a bike is complete misnomer the government is determined to drive farmers into the ground. Why has poor quality imported wheat been permitted into the country and our wheat rejected. No farmers no food feed people not birds.
@@caffrey9762 obviously I do understand farming probably better than you my argument is spending all that money on diesel weed killers and pesticides sowing in down in November then doing the same in March but killing it all off crazy
Why do farmers think the weather has been so bad 😂, just bad luck or because of the badgers 🤔because of people's actions is the answer. Another fact, another thing is, blaming other wild animals for TB is wrong ( 🦌🦡) & the government are pushing that, because the truth is, people again are responsible for TB & all other diseases that are spreading ( fact). 1 farmer on your video said about where your food will Come from in the future, hopefully from the land, but some serious changed needed 😂, personally, from wat I can see on the news papers, 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺🇮🇱 humanity has not come on much in the last 🤔 for ever, (still hope do) 🤞 🌍, Coming to u from Ourzazate 🇲🇦, edge of Sahara 🌴🐪 🧕🏾, 3 ½ hours from home ✈️ ☘️, left for a break from the Grey, wet, gloomy weather. Holidays best money ever spent 😎 🍹
The SFI should be limited to, say, about 10% on any one farm, good presentation Olly, cheers from Kent
As you know Olly, I'm an advocate of farmer's farming, growing food for the nation, agree we have to be mindful of nature, but hedge management, ditch and water management and wild margins
Seems once again, government are encouraging farmer's to stop food production and rely on imports, otherwise they'd be more willing to put sfi money into the waterways to prevent food and wildlife loses
I just hope the resilient farmer's continue to produce and the government start to look at the populous and their requirements
Keep up the great work ALL
Geoff
Really good to see Myerscough getting involved in forestry.
The guy is right gov doesn't understand farming BUT THE AGENDA IS GOING TO PLAN!
Other way around, it's u who doesn't understand the balance of life or the planet u live on. look at the weather, why u think it's been so bad. 😂 Don't be a 🦍
They understand very well , they have scientific advisors. People that studied Science in College 🤠.
Newbie to this channel. Very informative and interesting watch. Cheers to all involved.
I’m all for helping wildlife but I feel the government needs to put subsidising food production top of the list , not feeding birds or giving up good food producing land for subsidised solar fields , this country has the ability to be self sufficient regarding food production rather than relying on imports and that’s what we should be pushing for
A mix but focus the SFI on less productive areas. The perils of not being food self sufficient have already been highlighted in WW2.
Hi Olly I have a mixed farm cattle and cereals if the government wants flowers why not grow them good break crop.I am going into some SFI and cutting down on cow numbers Good program keep up the good work.Cheers from Cornwall. I seen you at the RCS last year.👍🤠
Although the SFI is grown or the winter bird seed, as you say the bees are all over the flowers so it a positive thing for pollinators. This is good in turn for crops so it seems a great idea. A good insurance policy for you Olly.
Got be some common sense with sfi, rewilding subsidies, what happens when farms think bugger this it’s just as profitable and less work than grafting to do food production
the NHS pays huge numbers of unproductive staff , the agriculture bill is peanuts
Hi regarding covercrops or bird covercrops, They all come at a cost ie winter food for slugs letherjackets , all will creat havock to folling crops which must be speayed ,crows pigeons attack emerging crops
SFI is certainly much better than rewilding going forward. The latter is such a disaster for food production. love the videos as an ex farmer. never was an easy choice but it seems harder these days!
Olly, we are all struggling with the un-squarable circle that is sustainable food production. I view the problem as trying to produce food in an environment that needs to be sustained. Particularly carbon positively, if the food we produce has to ‘borrow’ from the ‘bank of carbon’ then we need to strive to adjust this. The birdseed plots, mixed crops, fallows, long rotations, reduced chemical and artificial inputs, low food miles etc etc, all help with that aim. This, of course, comes with lower yields, harder, less predictable outcomes and higher food costs.
If the aim is to produce food and try and be sustainable/protect the environment, we need to acknowledge that food needs to priced at its true (environmental) cost. This is an obviously unpalatable situation, probably impossible, hence the un-squarable circle.
As a farmer it is out job to grow food just because people are influenced by the tv media and in turn the government has imposed this policy that we are to be park keepers. The lesson learned during war 2 have been forgotten, it is a wise policy to grow our own food.
With out Nature, all we are dust, Nature is disappearing at serious rate in the last 20 years ( fact) nsects. A planet with 10 Billion people & no Nature is not sustainable. A lot of the older people in our world, don't understand Nature & the balance of life.
Big farms need to stand with small farms. Once the small go they'll be after the bigger and so on!
Weather be a lot better off they stop spraying barium, aluminium, strontium and other chemicals.
Farmers have been turned into beggars for the entertainment of fools.
How can an industry like farming have arrived at this point.
The people who are creating this situation of tree hugging, flower power department will rue the day they have compromised this very dear and honourable profession.
Sfi best thing to happen for years massive support now , got whole farm in 4 payments over year no more Chem or fert bills better than 4t /acre wheat 👍
Farmers feed the world. We need to acknowledge and thank farmers for the food we consume each and every day. Yes, we can import however, have you noticed how Local farmers markets are growing in popularity? We can get local, farm to plate products. This channel gets more informative and educational as it develops - Congrats on 11K. Fantastic to see the upcoming generation acknowledge/know the struggles they will be taking on as farmers. Not sure about subsidy Olly
U need some education lad 😂, a planet with 10 Billion + people & no Nature, is not possible. In the last 20 years insect, bird etc numbers dropping, weather is changing & I'd say your loving that in the UK, all because of people.nature does not need people, we most cwr3nees nature & if u were educated about the balance of life, then u might understand that
The food harvest is bad with the weather so why get paid for feeding birds
Because if u educate your self on how your planet works & the balance of nature works, u would understand the importance of insects & birds, why do u think the weather is been so bad ??? 😂, because of us
Same as register chickens! They need to be told to f off. But everyone's got to do it? No good going off half cocked as they say.
Needs to happen soon as we're running out of time!
flower s should be growing on margins only
Info is out there. Look for it.
Grow food
Bumper crop of pigeons for next spring
Plenty of pigeon pie
i think livestock farmers have done better than arable farmers this year.......grass is a less sensitive crop to grow........maybe you need to be more of a mixed farming farmer olly put those fields that keep flooding into grass and keep some cattle/sheep use your straw to bed cattle then have the muck to put back out on the fields.........mixed farming spreads your risks........if you have a wet year its good for grass and livestock and if its a dry year its better for the arable side
Give you arable men something to do in winter instead of being in the workshop with the paint brush 😂😂😂. Seriously though it always used to be pigs tied in with arable. When corn was cheap feed it to the pigs and vice versa. A lot to be said for a mixed farm, spread the losses 😂
No, its bonkers.
Why is it when these programs go to ploughing matches they rarely show any ploughing its just general waffle around the trade stands?
Steve - There are many blogs devoted to ploughing matches. This is the REAL country file talking, showing, highlighting the problems, issues, advances in Farming Practices with REAL farming folk discussing Farming Life
🚜FOOD NOT BUGS 🚜
Some farmers need education on how nature works & the balance of life. Nature is disappearing at an alarming rate. We need nature to survive, nature certainly doesn't need us. We are changing the face of the planet & not for the better ( in the last 30 years) ( including the weather). Fact. Native American saying =. Wen the blood in your veins returns to sea & the earth in your bones to the ground, perhaps then u will remember, that this land does not belong to u, it is u hu belong to the land ( fact). Everything people do with the land now, is everyone else's business, because we all want to live. That's my rant finished 😎
Food only for humans
Absolutely not good fat pheasants this land has a shock coming and MrPutin is more than capable of delivering it, never seen a farmer on a bike is complete misnomer the government is determined to drive farmers into the ground. Why has poor quality imported wheat been permitted into the country and our wheat rejected. No farmers no food feed people not birds.
If SFI and stewardship is what they are willing to pay us for why argue.
My view is not to feed the birds but reduce human food production, its a control thing.
Its absolutely bonkers what a waste of fuel and poison talk about going green its only good for the pen pushers
Clearly u don't understand farming & nature & where your food comes from 😂. We need nature, insects, birds etc.
@@caffrey9762 obviously I do understand farming probably better than you my argument is spending all that money on diesel weed killers and pesticides sowing in down in November then doing the same in March but killing it all off crazy
Why do farmers think the weather has been so bad 😂, just bad luck or because of the badgers 🤔because of people's actions is the answer. Another fact, another thing is, blaming other wild animals for TB is wrong ( 🦌🦡) & the government are pushing that, because the truth is, people again are responsible for TB & all other diseases that are spreading ( fact). 1 farmer on your video said about where your food will Come from in the future, hopefully from the land, but some serious changed needed 😂, personally, from wat I can see on the news papers, 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺🇮🇱 humanity has not come on much in the last 🤔 for ever, (still hope do) 🤞 🌍, Coming to u from Ourzazate 🇲🇦, edge of Sahara 🌴🐪 🧕🏾, 3 ½ hours from home ✈️ ☘️, left for a break from the Grey, wet, gloomy weather. Holidays best money ever spent 😎 🍹