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but . . but . . all those cattle are part of the global warming problem ;)

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Interesting statistic in that report - Oz beef herd population of 28 million (vs U.K. beef herd population of 1.45 million).

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A very recent survey concluded that currently, nobody gives a flying..............

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except the farmers…

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/busines...e-deal-7982092

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...farms-bus.html

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I did read the full article - the28 million figure was on the last page, before the appendix sales pitch…

The lower grade beef could be sold to U.K. ready meal/burger producers.

What do you think U.K. farmers should do?

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Well there seems to be no point bothering with cattle.
The Australians will undercut them on prices, and the Supermarket chains are killing them on the price for milk production.

Probably best if they give up farming, and sell the land for housing or solar power sites.

. . or just plant thousands of trees and keep the environmentalists happy

Chickens are a big thing, although 462 acres of free range chickens won't be easy to manage :D

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So let me get this right. Australia has and still produces 28 million (tons?) of beef and it is all now coming to the UK. Does that include the year on year production for all the time we have been in the EU or just mean they are not going to sell to anyone else and just flood our market?
Australian production just as ours depends on the market available. They are producing for the already available market and would have to increase to supply us.

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Great report. I doubt the key points have changed but a heads-up it is ten years old.

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That's what Patrick Minford said, that farming will have to be sacrificed for brexit

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By that reasoning, our shipbuilding, steel-making, coal mining, and textile making industries are all still thriving…

If they can make more profit selling here versus some of their existing markets (which may have price constraints/tariffs), why wouldn’t they? (for example, China has a 12% tariff on Oz beef, and exports to the China and the USA fell).

https://www.beefcentral.com/trade/20...illion-tonnes/

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Could you clarify that, please, as I’m not sure what you mean?

Would the the supermarkets not be going for at least the same (if not more) mark up?

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All this about us having to take US beef filled with crap and Chlorinated Chicken is BS.

They can sell it here, but we don't have to buy it.

I buy all the food in my household and I buy British meat 100% of the time.

So when we don't buy it they will stop selling it.


Listening to Adrian Chiles this morning he was talking to a Lamb farmer, and they said their biggest problem is the false rubbish said by vegan groups.