Farmers Wont Strike, Why?

[nicebloke1]

If farmers decided to stop supplying produce to supermarkets they would have to plan that move months in advance or lose twice the amount of money.

Crops take weeks and months to grow before harvest. 

So you have the expense of of buying and planting the crop, looking after it for weeks then harvest. If you then decide not to send to market, and dump it you've not only lost the wholesale value but also the outlay to buy grow and tend the crop.

Either way they will be shooting themselves in the foot, no income. 

And I'm affraid its human nature for old McDonald down the road to see the chance of increasing his turnover by stepping in with his produce making more money. Like all strikes theres always somebody ready to make a quick killing. 

So all in all these farmers are up the creek without a paddle dont you think?

[nicebloke1]

They got card readers in the farm shop when they charge me £7 for six eggs robbing dogs.

[Clone]

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[nicebloke1]

If they have a fishing pool on the land, average cost £20 a day, cash again.

[Togo]

Which farms are you visiting with fishing rights open to visitors? Those places are usually dedicated fisheries or run by leisure groups. In all my years fishing I have not been to a farm owned pool for decades. I am interested in finding some though. Where are the ones that you visit? Have you got a link?  

[nicebloke1]

You dont get out much. :0)

[newmodarmy]

I'm sure you weren't expecting a sensible response Togo, so you won't be disappointed.

[nicebloke1]

Ask for some milk, and it costs more than a bottle of brandy. Poor farmers :0)

[Togo]

Fantasist nma. Sad case . 

[New Judge]

"I do wonder why farmers large and small always insist on me paying them cash for parking my motorhome overnight?"

Hopefully for the same reason as I insist on paying my window cleaner in cash - in the hope he trousers the money and forgets to put it through the books.

[jourdain2]

No-one seems to be listening.  Farming is not a job - it is a way of life.  Wholke communities spring from it.

Interfere with it and you hit a huge cog in the machinery of how the country operates.

[nicebloke1]

A way of life dont pay your tax bill. :0)

[Deskdiary]

Clone at 9.01pm - excellent.

[New Judge]

"A way of life dont pay your tax bill. :0)"

Except that it's not my bill.

I pay my window cleaner £30. That started off as £50 of my income before the government took £20 of it.

I don't see any reason why the government should take another £6 (or maybe £12) of it if it can be avoided. But that's a matter for my window cleaner, not me.