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harvest 2020

  • 22-07-2011 12:05am
    #1
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭


    Are we serious about harvest 2020 ? If you want to improve your land you may have to apply for permission. Crazy country that ties your hands behind youre back and still expects 50% increase in production ? A new quota:eek:


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  • #2
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Harvest 2020 is already out of date given the new regime under CAP III post 2013 which places much more emphasis on a holistic approach to rural development. In any case it was rather unimaginitive and would more than likely lead to fewer farm families and hasten a decline in the fortunes of most rural areas as it would simply lead to fewer bigger farms - indeed much of its thinking appeared to be stuck in some 80's time-warp:rolleyes:


  • #3
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Harvest 2020 is already out of date given the new regime under CAP III post 2013 which places much more emphasis on a holistic approach to rural development. In any case it was rather unimaginitive and would more than likely lead to fewer farm families and hasten a decline in the fortunes of most rural areas as it would simply lead to fewer bigger farms - indeed much of its thinking appeared to be stuck in some 80's time-warp:rolleyes:

    Don't we actually need fewer bigger farms though?

    Fragmented farms and small farms are 2 of the biggest problems in Irish farming in my opinion

    (BTW I'm not talking about creating thousand acre ranches)


  • #4
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    Don't we actually need fewer bigger farms though?

    Fragmented farms and small farms are 2 of the biggest problems in Irish farming in my opinion

    (BTW I'm not talking about creating thousand acre ranches)

    What is a "small farm"?

    Not trying to be funny, but I dont know what a small farm is now?
    Are farms (or should they) measured in terms of the money (or average potential money) they could generate?


  • #5
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    Don't we actually need fewer bigger farms though?

    Fragmented farms and small farms are 2 of the biggest problems in Irish farming in my opinion

    That would be a receipe for further social/economic decline in rural areas IMO - the CAP is sold to EU tax-payers in many countries as maintaining traditional rural landscapes and environments in order to maintain general public support for various payments to farmers, as well as supporting industries like Tourism, traditional products etc. In any case there is unlikely to be much political will across the EU to channel an ever bigger share of SFP payments to the biggest farmers(and big agri corporations in many cases).


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