Tree planting wasted efforts......

[Stubby]

8 hours ago, coppice cutter said:

Not much incentive for the horticulture industry when the produce has to be dumped.

 

Farmer gives away blueberries worth millions of pounds

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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A Perthshire farmer says it no longer makes economic sense to harvest the fruit, which will now go to charity.

 

Something like this shouldn't be happening. Given that it's the BBC there's no proper explanation for why it's happening, and I'd be wary of taking what they say at face value anyway, but plainly there is a big problem here.

I am going back possibly 20 years now but a farmer next to me grew a few acres of flaxc/linsead . I asked him why he did not harvest it and he told me he had got the subsidy and it was more economic to plough it back in .

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1 hour ago, Stubby said:

I am going back possibly 20 years now but a farmer next to me grew a few acres of flaxc/linsead . I asked him why he did not harvest it and he told me he had got the subsidy and it was more economic to plough it back in .

Was happening big time up here, some farmers got away with just buying the seed, never had to put it in the drill, collect subsidy and sow a different crop on the intended area, double win....