Recent content by feralpig

My word,,,,,,,,you are so wrong.......

Sorry, you have clearly missed my point. Maybe I don't express myself all that well. I was born and bred here, and I've watched this happen. This is not misinformed, this is 30 plus years of experience, it's seeing what is. Some can see it, some can't, I know that, and don't take issue with...

Maybe I don't type quite the way I think. The Farmers would stand on their heads and drink a glass of water, if that is what the subsidy system required of them. They are only reacting to what they need to do to survive. If they were paid to maintain a thriving ecology, they would. Clearly, food...

I have absolutely no issues with teaching kids about bad farming practises. That's slightly different to teaching them Farming. It doesn't take an agri college or qualification to teach kids that. When kids go on farms, especially from inner cities, of course it looks wonderful, and it is...

I would love to walk away from this thread, feeling a whole lot better that the countryside is in safe hands, and everything is fine and dandy, and getting better. Unfortunately, I know different. I cannot wilfully ignore what I have grown up with, and see every day, nor what I know about about...

Efficient? Can you demonstrate that, in some way? (You won't be able to) That kind of view of agriculture is precisely why, in not so many generations to come, school kids will look on in wonder, and sheer amazement, when their teachers tell them, that for thousands of years, there used to be...

If you really want to teach kids about farming, teach them about massive environmental destruction, soil erosion, polluted water ways, habitat and wildlife loss. Mental illness, alcoholism, suicide, the effects of isolation. Industrial injury, and chemical poisoning. Teach them how farming...

As you say, Agriculture needs to improve it's practises, and live in the modern world. Until it does, I don't see any positive message to send to school children, or anyone else. The only positive about Farming right now is the slight glimmer of hope that things may change, and I don't mean...

Good you got it sorted. Washing machines are pretty simple, and the older ones are very repairable. I pick up a bit of scrap now and again, and often pick up washing machines off customers. One of the favourite tricks on newer ones is the spider breaking off the back of the drum. The drum is...

I have one Hotpoint washing machine that is over 20 years old. It's still possible to get most the parts for it, and I often do. What I can't get, I can mostly make. I've got two other that I have repaired on standby, similar vintage. Old ones are great, parts are super cheap. I have no idea if...

Yes, that is precisely the way organic matter is returned to the veg fields. Spuds and wheat and barley, at least. Done it myself. Some slurry and chicken manure goes on, but from what I have done, the greater quantity is out of the sewerage works. Again, different parts of the country employ...

Yes, the manure should be returned to the ground, but it isn't happening in the way it should be, for a number of different reasons. When he says......... "Even organic, low-input, high-welfare production could be described as ethical only if we ate less meat. Then, if manure production were...

Different areas, different issues. I'm not familiar with the farming practises on the Fens. The warmer parts of Wales, the farmers are limited in the amount of manure that goes on the land. They have a surplus. I know of one local farm to me, who hauls two tanker loads of manure from...

Some of his writing I have little interest in, but I can't disagree with him in any way when it comes to his views on agriculture and food production. I could have told him half of what he says 20 years ago.....

Bit of follow up on the story, here. http://www.monbiot.com/2015/08/27/the-dawning/