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Cowsham wrote: ↑23 Nov 2024, 2:10pm
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So it seems OK that we get farmers to supply food to us but we don't want to give them enough for it to provide them with a viable living or enough to even invest in the upkeep of the farm to keep it viable in future.?

Is it not a bit strange to show a retail price for semi skimmed milk when farmers are paid for whole milk? As farmgate prices have risen your table suggests the middlemen and supermarkets have taken a cut and not before time.

@Cowsham says

Farming is on it's knees so the timing of this tax is very poor

Excuse me while I have a little chuckle.
I spent my childhood on a farm, my entire working life on a farm, and live amongst them in retirement. There will never be a good time to introduce a tax. I don’t deny some struggle as our own business model took advantage of these cash strapped farmers. Are these the same people as those with valuable farms? I don’t think so.
The one thing farmers are good at is crying wolf. It’s an art learned in the auction ring from a young age. Inwardly smiling and outwardly offended at the poor price you’re being bid.

A couple of years ago viewtopic.php?t=152314

You’ll need to explain why we need to see the same picture again in a quoted post.

Analysis by the property consultants Strutt & Parker, external found that 40% of farms that were sold last year in England were bought by investors while 45% were bought by working farmers.

Says it all.

Nearholmer wrote: ↑19 Nov 2024, 7:03pm I would have thought that the most likely vertical integration would be for supermarkets to buy farms, although they’re probably better not doing so unless they can secure really huge acreages, dotted-about strategically.

Yet the opposite has happened. Farms owned by the COOP and Morrisons I knew of have been sold.

Jdsk wrote: ↑18 Nov 2024, 3:03pm "Heat pump scheme for Edwardian social housing aims to bust low-carbon myths":
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... rbon-myths

The scheme’s 27 boreholes burrow deep into the ground directly beneath the estate to where piped water is warmed and fed to a network of “shoebox” heat pumps in a cupboard in each flat. Here, each heat pump – roughly the size of a gas boiler – tops up the heat of the water pipes so that each household can control their own heating, setting it to their preference or using thermostats.

Haven't heard of that before. Can anyone find a description of the technology?

Jonathan

Which technology using boreholes or the sharing of a heat source?

You’ve got to feed your heat pump with either water or air. They must consider the expense of the borehole worth it in a block of houses where air isn’t a possibility.
I just hope the feed to their homes isn’t in series as Its a bit unfair to the home at the end getting all the precooled water.
The advantage of the water feed is it gives a narrow band of temperature variation which then allows for a pump and its gas to be matched to that temperature. I’ve often thought pipes laying in the bottom of rivers would be a good source until the river freezes of course.

It’s an interesting one and agree with @nearholmer it’s yet another thing being whipped into an anti government cultural thing by our right wing press.
I live and worked in the midst of three large estates, two family owned, one the Crown. The farms are a mixture of tenants to one of the three or they are family/business owned. The ones who own their land only do so now because in the past the larger estates had to sell it to pay taxes.
The OP isn’t entirely correct saying tenants can no longer afford to buy. A number of tenants around me have very recently taken an option to buy offered to them by Crown estates. These people will have been tenants for a lot of years and I believe it linked to the type of agreement they had.
I doubt land prices will go down as it’s a commodity that isn’t produced anymore. There has definitely been a steep increase in land values because of monied people buying it for tax purposes. A small 180 acre farm near me has just come on the market for 2.75 million. It’s poor wet land and I’ve watched, in the last 40 years, two families try to scratch a living out of it. At its current asking price it’s surely beyond the capabilities of another young family to take on. A farm yard I walk through most days I stood and valued the machinery stood in the yard. It came to almost a million!
If it’s OK to tax Lord Font on his estate then yes we have to tax Joe Blogs finding the value hurting kicks in is the difficult part.

Ebay sold items suggest somewhere between 700 - 900 pounds.

Disclaimer : I have absolutely no experience of thru axles.
But if it were mine I’d screw that back in and then screwing back out after every half turn I’d clout that rhs fork with a rubber or wooden mallet. Give it a shock

I can give you some facts on that subject
My HP is in its 15th year. Never seen an engineer since the day it was fitted. Never even cleaned for the first 8 years. I’ve washed and cleaned it annually since yr 9 as it was loosing performance.
4C outside and 19C indoors and standing 2 metres away from the outdoor unit it’s reading mid 60s Db Suggesting a quiet street.
There has been a few new installs in the village and the new ones appear quieter than mine. I struggle to hear them walking past.

It’s not much use looking at it in my area.
Shelter : 1 bothy marked 2 not marked
Campsites : Not all listed and one that is listed is pure tarmac. You’d not get a tent peg there
Water : All I need to know is a lot of houses have outside taps.
POI : Interesting collection
You’ve a long way to go to compete with Pocket Earth.

Still watch the occasional JH on YouTube. I loved it as a child and still enjoy looking back at the countryside as it was, in Jack's part of the world. For years I used to put my initials on my knife blade as taught by Jack.

Monday night is quiz night for us and after OC and UC we switch over to Call my Bluff. It's gentle and entertaining but imagine the criticism if it was made now. I suppose it’s morphed into Would I lie to you.

Leave on the ground and bury/cover with earth. Leave a marker to find in the spring. Theirs is a reason water pipes are buried and not suspended on posts.
My own garden taps (I’ve three) have stop valves below in the ground I close those and leave the spigot/tap open.

Not here it isn’t
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