Disastrous fruit and vegetable crops must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, say farmers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/03/disastrous-fruit-and-vegetable-crops-must-be-wake-up-call-for-uk-say-farmers
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Disastrous fruit and vegetable crops must be ‘wake-up call’ for UK, say farmers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/03/disastrous-fruit-and-vegetable-crops-must-be-wake-up-call-for-uk-say-farmers
Posted by LowQualityDiscourse
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I wonder how many of these farmers are voting for a party with a proper climate plan today.
Wait… No I don’t.
There is zero chance any party will recognise the issues we are facing in the future with being able to grow our own food……. we need to support the ever living shit out of our farmers, or we can all starve and fight for what we can import.
Moving the goalposts.
The weather is supposed to be hot not cold. When its cold they call it extreme weather.
[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6583ea4c23b70a0013234d50/ukcerealoilseed-chart2-15Dec23.svg](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6583ea4c23b70a0013234d50/ukcerealoilseed-chart2-15Dec23.svg)
There is no long term trend in uk crop productivity other than a slight increase.
[https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6583ea56fc07f300128d45ce/ukcerealoilseed-chart3-15Dec23.SVG](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6583ea56fc07f300128d45ce/ukcerealoilseed-chart3-15Dec23.SVG)
There has been a decline in rape offset by an increase in barely.
Climate change is real. But cherry picking one year and certain crops is just that cherry picking.
Good thing we left the EU, who often has a surplus of food or we might have been able to import food cheaply and efficiently to help ease the burden. I’m glad we dodged that bullet so we can import at a higher rate and “encourage” non existent long term strategies to improve the situation at home.
Did I miss the part in the article where the farmers want more government handouts?
I suggest everybody gives Clarkson’s Farm a watch if they haven’t already. It’s honestly eye opening as to what farmers go through and how at the whims of the increasingly extreme weather they are.
Oil companies openly paying Farage to dismiss climate change now after 40 years of having a more mainstream party and client journalists do it for them. They’ve given £2.3 million to Farage’s Reform Party Limited company yet Reform voters still often heard talking about him like he’s a trustworthy man of the people type.
Propaganda works, sadly, which is why people like Farage and Bojo who can come across as plausible and likeable while advocating for terrible policies on behalf of the greedy and unscrupulous have such value to those interests.
Reform who were Brexit/UKIP don’t believe in man made climate change so they won’t help the farmers.
Unfortunately too many idiots on here still in denial regards climate change, and claim there will never be any food shortages
My garden has been incredibly unproductive this year. Like 50%+ of seedlings failed due to lack of light and warmth earlier in the year and many of the rest got mown down by the massive increase in slugs.
Anything that made it through is limping along: my tomatoes are barely 2ft high and nowhere near fruiting. My courgettes are barely doing anything. Corn shot up to knee height but has done nothing for weeks now.
On the plus side it seems like it might be a good year for apples, the tree must have hundreds on and they’re swelling every day.
It won’t be – the UK and farmers will keep supporting the systems that cause this…regardless of which puppet is in front