Government Farming Subsidy Discussion

The next thing I'm gonna tell you is unreal, because now

we've been offered £2,500 to join a

scheme

for three years, and we don't supply you any food.

What?

Yeah, listen to that.

We're gonna go hungry.

I am gonna plow a field.

I'm gonna put spring barley in.

I'm gonna get £440 off the government-

Per acre

... per acre.

Okay?

Then when it comes to crop size, leave it rot

in the ground.

Oh.

So I don't get no straw for the cattle.

You don't get nothing for your bread, for everything we make.

Okay?

But I can also plant bee mix, which is for

birds and bees.

I can plant wild bird seed, which is for wild birds.

I can also be paid to buy a ton of wild bird seed, like

anybody puts in their garden for the birds,

and drew it out on the ground

once a week. I can get paid for that.

Now, my accountant says do it,

because in doing that, I've not got to buy fertilizer,

which since the Ukraine war has gone from £250 an acre to a

th- a ton, sorry, to £1,000 a ton.

So in order to fertilize your food, I've got to buy fertilizer at

£1,000 a ton. It's come down a little bit in some times,

and it goes

up a little bit. But that's basically where we are.

So I've now got a crop that I don't have to spray,

I don't have to send

nobody out there with a tractor, I don't have to fertilize it,

but I can just leave

it in the ground and let it rot

and pick up my £440 an acre

and go all over it again. And the government is giving me

£2,500 for the next three years to do that.

Wow.

And there's ... I'm not the only one.

Yeah. Why?