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A British farmer has said that the government has offered a scheme to pay farmers not to supply food for three years. This scheme is part of a larger trend where farmers are being financially incentivised by the state to reduce food production. Why would they do that?
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Last week, TrailBlazingTruths posted a video clip on TikTok of Cornish farmer Keith Andrews explaining how the UK government is incentivising farmers not to grow food.
“We’ve been offered £2,500 to join a scheme for the next three years where we don’t supply you any food,” he said.
“I’m going to plough a field. I’m going to put spring barley in. I’m going to get £440 off the Government, per acre. Then when it comes to crop size, leave it [to] rot in the ground.
“So, I don’t get no straw for the cattle, you don’t get nothing for your bread, for everything we make.
“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 tonne of bird seed, like anybody puts in their garden for the birds, and threw it out on the ground once a week. I can get paid for that.
“My accountant says ‘do it’. Because in doing that, I’ve not got to buy fertiliser – which since the Ukraine war it’s gone from £250 a tonne to £1,000 a tonne, so in order to fertilise your food I’ve got to buy fertiliser at £1,000 a tonne.
“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 fertilise it or I can just leave it in the ground to rot.”
20 July 2024 (2 mins)
We were unable to establish details for when or where Andrew’s speech was given. However, the government incentivisation Andrews referred to has been in place for a couple of years and has been expanded and the incentives increased over time.
A scheme to pay farmers for actions they take, going beyond regulatory requirements, to manage their land in an “environmentally sustainable” way was set out by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (“Defra”) in their Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024.
Called the Sustainable Farming Incentive (“SFI”), the scheme is made up of a set of specified standards and is open to all farmers and occupiers with management control. It is one of three that make up the environmental land management (“ELM”) schemes, which replaced the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy.
The ELM schemes have the stated aim of “support[ing] the rural economy while achieving the goals of the 25 Year Environment Plan and a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.” This alone tells us that the schemes have dubious origins and motives.
SFI was launched by the UK government in 2022 following an earlier pilot. In June 2023, the Government launched a “new and improved” SFI 2023 offering farmers additional actions and more flexibility to choose the actions they want to get paid for, offering more than twice as many new SFI actions as originally planned.
Incentivising farmers to plant hedgerows instead of crops, Minister of State at Defra Sir Mark Spencer said: “There’s no minimum or maximum land area or hedgerow length, so farmers can choose how much land to cover with their SFI agreement.”
In September 2023, Defra posted a blog which demonstrated that they hadn’t thought through the dire consequences of their eco-activism:
Through SFI, our aim is to support farming and farmers. We want to protect and improve the environment, food production and food security. We obviously don’t want SFI to be used in a way that comes at a cost to any of them.
We know that sometimes sparing land for a year, or 2 or 3 can make food production more resilient and can support farmers to achieve better margins from their land. Some of our SFI actions do take land out of food production for a short time, which helps farmers do this.
The evidence shows that a small number of farmers, roughly 1% of those who applied for SFI in 2023, entered 80% or more of their farm into actions that involve taking land out of food production.
While flexibility and freedom of choice are important features of SFI, we think this goes further than is necessary. And, in the context of economic volatility and challenging weather conditions, there is a risk that this could become more of an issue.
The Sustainable Farming Incentive, UK Government, 13 September 2024
Defra’s warning about food security was issued in September 2023. But this warning was ignored a few months later with the announcement of yet more upgrades to the scheme.
In November 2023, Steve Barclay was appointed the Secretary of State for Defra. Within two months, he announced “the biggest upgrade to the UK’s farming schemes since leaving the European Union.” These upgrades included:
Enhanced payments for ‘creation’ and ‘maintenance’ options to improve the long term incentives for farmers to create habitats and ensure they are rewarded for looking after habitats once they have created them.
Premium payments for actions with the biggest environmental impact or combinations of actions that deliver benefits at scale, such as £765 per hectare for nesting plots for lapwing, and £1,242 per hectare for connecting river and floodplain habitat.
Biggest upgrade to UK farming schemes introduced by the Government since leaving the EU, UK Government, 4 January 2024
In May 2024, the UK government finally realised their folly. The scheme proved so popular to struggling farmers that the Government was forced to issue a crackdown, warning that growers could only take 25 per cent of their land out of direct food production for environmental projects.
The Telegraph reported that Mark Spencer, the Minister of State for Food, Farming and Fisheries, said the initiative “was always intended to be implemented on smaller areas of land … Food production is the primary purpose of farming and we are taking action to clarify this principle.”
Farmers, and the public at large, don’t need to be told that the primary purpose of farming is food production. And farmers, and the public at large, would have implemented policies to support farmers to grow more food, not less.
Keith Andrews is not the only farmer issuing warnings about the Government’s policies. In April, Jeremy Clarkson warned that farmers are being incentivised not to produce food and said he has stopped growing food in some of his fields because it is more profitable to take government eco handouts.
Writing in the Sunday Times magazine, he said: “I have signed up to the government’s eco-friendly grant scheme and will be planting things that aren’t food in three fields.
“They’re good for the soil and they’re good for my bank balance. But it means I’m not growing stuff people can eat,” Clarkson said.
“I know one chap who has taken 60 per cent of his farm out of food production and he’s not alone. So, yippee. All that stored carbon and all of that fixed-in nitrogen.
“But what if you want some bread? You’ll have to get a loaf made from wheat that was grown abroad. And how’s that good for global warming?”
In the video below, Russel Brand highlighted the issue raised by Clarkson and asked, why would you incentivise farmers to not grow food?
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What’s going to be the outcome for British people if farmers get “incentivised” to not produce food for three years? You guessed it – extreme hardship, if not death by starvation of large numbers of the people. How can a policy like this be viewed as rational? If government is making irrational decisions, well, even if the pressure is on, do we have to meekly go along with it? So when are British farmers going to say “no” to this? My grandfather farmed 90 acres on his own back through the turn of the 19th to the mid-20th century and never bought fertiliser; he just used the cow manure from the yards, and rotated his paddocks to make the most of the manure gathering there naturally to grow wheat and hay. And fallowed every field every four years – a practice that was handed down through generations of farmers. British farmers need to start thinking outside the box and stop believing the government has our best interests at heart. Oh! And then there’s Masanobu Fukuoka and his One Straw Revolution. C’mon, you farmers! Get with it!
Oh! If only we were surrounded by more people like your grandfather!!!
I would say however, that the policy you refer to is entirely “rational” to those who are behind the depopulation agenda, likewise to those enlightened ones who know what’s going on who are fully against it!
It is only “irrational” to those that don’t know what’s going on; sadly there are too many of them!
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Point me in the direction of a poor farmer.
Are there any?
Once again, Fiat currency is used as the bait to feed the farmers greed.
In the meantime, the genocide and manufactured famine continues unabated.
Karma is always dished out fairly. Whether good karma or bad karma.
People continuing to feed the system and ultimately their own demise, should remember karma has no bias. As should the greedy farmers, who are only too willing to go along with the criminality of the Corporate parasites as long as they continue to have a place at the trough.
Yup! A more modern terminology to the concept of Karma, is Cause and Effect… To every action there is always a RE-action, something we could do with being taught in mainstream education, but under the present system, the most prevalent ‘Reaction’ children are given to observe, is that if you don’t obey, you’ll experience some kind of punishment. Sad!
“the initiative “was always intended to be implemented on smaller areas of land …” Well if that was the case, WHY DIDN’T YOU SPECIFY A MAXIMUM FROM THE START, you useless wankers!
Honestly, wake up people, our energy supplies are being curtailed by the introduction of net zero, and our food supply is being curtailed by this insane policy. Doesn’t that tell you something? THEY’RE GOING TO KILL A LOT OF US! and they’re planning for it. WAKE UP!
6.5 years remain of the parasites killing spree.
They gave the people fair warning of their intentions, as they always do.
Agenda 2030.
Sadly, many are happy to end up as a dead statistic.
I agree, “They gave the people fair warning of their intentions, as they always do.”
But, the trouble is people have been reading and watching the ‘fun’ stuff instead!
Remind me, what was Agenda 2025 all about? Some think the so-called Deagel depopulation paper pointed to the event happening sooner…
Been in full swing since March 2020 when vast numbers of the elderly were murdered in care homes and hospitals.
Figures the parasites used as the first wave of their covid scam.
It is worth noting that in the MRNA trials, no animal or person survived beyond 7 years.
Halfway there.
And yes, you are correct. The people prefer the circus supplied by Rome over saving their own existence.
They’ve been well brainwashed into looking for pleasure and passing the ‘Buck of Responsibility’ on to the government. Very infantile (as planned via education). ‘Let Big Daddy take care of it all’. ‘Just keep believing in democracy, keep voting, keep hoping, but for evils sake DO NOT THINK! and if you do think, for evils sake don’t do anything about it…Look the other way, look down at your mini-tell-a-vision. Never look up’.
Agenda 2025 is still on target. Here in the U.S. farmers are also being paid not to farm. So one wonders how many other countries are doing the same. It looks like the powers that be are making sure we have a worldwide food shortage. Then the vaccine that has been percolating in millions causing the sudden deaths, the aggressive stage four cancers that just pop up along with a myriad of mysterious terminal illnesses are keeping the agenda on track.
They sped the Agenda up to 2025 as too many are awake
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Shame on the farmers who take the money. They should be reading between the lines to see what the schmucks are up to. This is all part of the agenda to make a food shortage. Stand up and fight. That’s the only way we are going to win.
IT TAKES TWO LITTLE LETTERS WITH A MASSIVE MEANING! ‘NO, NO ,NO’ – TELL THE GOVERNMENT TO FCK OFF! and STICK THEIR MONEY UP THEIR ARSES’!
FARMERS SHOULD GROW WHAT THEY CAN AFFORD TO GROW AND THEN BECOME SMALL CO-OPERATIVES.
ALSO, REFUSE TO DELIVER VEG’ TO WESTMINSTER, NO.10 ETC.
THERE IS ALWAYS “another way to skin a cat” – GOT IT?
FIGHT BACK!
everyone has a responsibility to question and stop if necessary to sustain life . Moral Code some take a oath Obligation
Nuremberg 2.0
Only this time it won’t be manipulated..
Holodomor 2.0
What happens to the Brit’s Nukes BEFORE the muslims take over?
have you ever heard of Galen Winsor ? an intricate part of the nuclear scare and an advocate for the truth .
Are the British farmers complying with this law? Is there no pushback?
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Thank you for sharing. Sadly this is not surprising.
In the U.S., bill gates bought up over 220,000 acres
of farmland. That tells us something. Some Farmers
here were also told to destroy their crops at one point.
Lowering the population is their goal. Yet, we still need
to eat and depend on farmers to feed us. For years,
many Americans have been buying long-term storage
foods. You can still buy storage food on many websites, or
gather your own supplies and learn to store them properly.
I met a lady years ago and she and her husband
bought a years’ worth of food for both of them. Just look on
youtube for all of the suggestions for buying and storing
food. You should see the setups some have in their basements.
Through human history, dictators typically reduced the population
by destroying or restricting food.Some confiscated the stored grain
of farmers. This typically leads many to resort to cannibalism to eat.
Create your own garden, at the very least we can take raw beans,buckwheat, broccoli seeds, etcetera and sprout them in
jars or collanders. Some sellers offer sprouting supplies.
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The powers that rule us have hi-jacked the wonderful concepts and the words of sustainable land use, of caring for the environment and twisted it towards their own aims of total technocratic control of every living form on earth. Those who pull the political puppet strings desire to re-introduce feudalism… ‘you will own nothing…’. They see the ‘masses’ as nothing better than useful or superfluous ‘cattle’ or ‘chattel’. they consider themselves ‘superior. genetically and intellectually. ‘They’ , who have pulled the war strings, industrialisation, technocracy, machine ruling man, achieved through the actions of their well paid puppets, do not seem to realise that it is ‘they’ themselves who have brought about environmental destruction… But wait! Maybe the destruction is all part of their plan to own and control everything, to reduce the population by whichever means possible… War, poverty, climatic disasters (weather modification, which has been in practice since at least WW2). A plan to disrupt everything possible, like encouraging farmers to stop producing food for the population, to cause general mayhem… How does the saying go? Problem, Reaction (our fear or panic), Solution! Enter the solution of One world government controlled by the Control Freaks, who cannot see that the lousy education they brought into being, the uncaring modernisation, the unfriendly cityscapes that are sprouting everywhere, the now considered as possibly dangerous AI that their finance has backed into being, all the things that appear to them to now be getting out of hand, ‘because there are too many people’ on the planet to easily control, could so easily be rectified with a good education, that teaches children to care, to be responsible for all their own actions, to question all ideas, to seek creative answers that hurt nothing on the planet… all this IS possible, and it is up to us to see and seek these possibilities, because ‘They’ are incapable, ruled as they are by the fear of loss of ‘power’.
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