
It is claimed that farm production could plummet this year with milk, lamb supplies and cereal stocks coming under pressure. The warning comes from a senior representative of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU), who is concerned that a combination of factors will lead to a potentially disastrous slump in output. Factors mentioned include over-regulation by officials, a greedy attitude from the major retailers, and bad weather leading to difficult harvest conditions - all could serve to further reduce the nation’s production capacity and food security.
The NFU spokesman is quoted as saying: “In talking at length to farmers across the country, many of them report some real threats to their businesses. The credit squeeze is making a major dent in producers’ confidence in dealing with the high costs of farm inputs, like animal feed, fertiliser and diesel.”
However the dairy sector has been highlighted as being in particular jeopardy from falling output.
The NFU spokesman continued: “Dairy farmers tell me that milk production will fall to perilously low levels. Many dairy farmers are anxiously waiting to see whether the spring will bring stability or the same price pressures that have seen a collapse in prices around the EU. On top of that, they are facing costs in excess of £50,000 per farm to install slurry storage to meet EU regulations.”
This added burden comes about directly as a consequence of Brown’s EU Quisling regime’s implementation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) throughout much of England – a regulation that is wholly unnecessary as adequate safeguards are already in place to counter the problems of nitrate seepage from animal slurry into water courses.
If this news wasn’t bad enough it has also been revealed that Britain’s milk production has fallen to a level which requires an increasing reliance on imports. Incredibly, in a land once self sufficient in milk, it is now estimated that decreasing annual production now requires the importation of around one million lirtes of milk, largely from eastern Europe, per day!
Should we wonder at this – considering the thousands of dairy farmers whose livelihoods have been ruined by CONservative apathy and ZaNu Labour hostility over the last twenty years?
What Britain’s shrinking farming industry needs, above all else, is a government actively supportive of it. Such support will not come from internationalist parties such as CONservative and ZaNu Labour – parties controlled by the EU and, consequently, furthering the interests of the EU over those of the nation. Only a nationalist government – a government that recognises the vital importance of food security – will give the industry the backing it so desperately needs.
In our nationalist Britain, self-sufficiency, or as near as we can get to it, will be the priority. The following is an overview of what we, Land & People, propose – we call it The Five Principles.
The Five Principles.
Land & People is supportive of the following five basic principles, which it promotes with a view to their adoption and incorporation into British Nationalist agricultural policy.
(1) We propose an expansion in British farming through increasing the number of family run farms and the vigorous promotion of farming as a vocation. This could involve the State acquisition of agricultural land and its redistribution in either freehold or rental parcels to new farmers, on advantageous terms. We believe the future of British farming should be centred on the yeoman farmer – not giant, often foreign-owned, agricultural combines who would reduce our countryside to GM polluted prairies in their reckless pursuit of profit.
(2) We propose an expansion in farming output to meet the agricultural needs of the nation as far as such is possible. The quality of home produced food is amongst the best in the world; therefore increasing the proportion of fresh home-grown food in the national diet makes for a healthier nation. In addition, as home demand presently hugely exceeds home production, there should be no reason why any competent farmer, afforded an even commercial playing field through State intervention, should not enjoy a stable and rewarding future in the industry.
(3) We propose the securing of the home market for the benefit of British producers through the imposition of tariffs on those imported foodstuffs that undermine our home markets and, thus, detrimental both to British producers and to the food security of the nation.
(4) We propose the provision of non-usurious finance credit for the farming industry through the proposed State owned National Reconstruction Bank. The current exploitative system, which sees the industry currently saddled with some £12 billion of debt and the banks sucking between £0.5 billion and £1.0 billion out of the industry in interest and other changes annually, is detrimental to the industry and to the nation’s food security.
(5) We propose State intervention in establishing annual baseline farm gate pricing which reflect the true cost of production and which factors in the minimum profit margin required to ensure the profitability, and thus the security, of Britain’s farming industry. The gross exploitation of farmers and other producers by the giant retailing cartels and banks, something the Westminster parties have turned a blind eye to for decades for reasons of self-interest, must end and a commercial playing field that recognises the worth and importance of the farming industry to the nation introduced as a matter of the greatest urgency.