  ic/status/1858456809691857126#m > british farming is in a strange position... > the government is refusing to enable investment in high-value automated farming like you see in the netherlands, as that uses co2 as a growing aid & would reduce demand for migrants labour. > whilst refusing to do land reform to break up our hedgerows and enable investment in at-scale technical farming like you see in the usa and eastern europe > these types of investment need large farms and fields for the productivity gains from capital expenditure to be justified > whilst also refusing to expand focus on small-scale, labour intensive production like the russian dacha system, which has been shown to be enormously productive and healthy. > whilst simultaneously paying farmers to retire early, plant forests on agricultural land, and tax their inheritances to oblivion... > there are arguments to be made that british farming should look very different to how it currently does, but no one is making them. > it's hard to see a joined up strategy on anything apart from simple punishment of our farmers. well yeah because their goal is to make britain dependent on everyone else and be at risk for global shocks allowing for further control and rationing and to use the land for bames or just land that nobody is allowed to use
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