Comments on: The business of farming http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/the-business-of-farming/ a community of green voices Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:25:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: shortfuse http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/the-business-of-farming/#comment-194 shortfuse Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:22:14 +0000 http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-194 It's time for the 'new farmers' to step foward and take over the stewardship of the land, only, it's now far too expensive to buy!!! It’s time for the ‘new farmers’ to step foward and take over the stewardship of the land, only, it’s now far too expensive to buy!!!

]]> By: toad http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/the-business-of-farming/#comment-184 toad Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:28:14 +0000 http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-184 jackhumm said: <i>Farms that could be managed by a farming family have amalgamated, stretched their boundary fences...</i> Unfortunately, they still haven't fenced the streams and rivers that run through them though, hence the <a href="http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/whitebaitbrownbait/" rel="nofollow">whitebait/brownbait</a> thread. jackhumm said: Farms that could be managed by a farming family have amalgamated, stretched their boundary fences…

Unfortunately, they still haven’t fenced the streams and rivers that run through them though, hence the whitebait/brownbait thread.

]]> By: kingmob http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/the-business-of-farming/#comment-183 kingmob Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:14:54 +0000 http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-183 Given how badly family farmers have screwed up the environment I'm not sure there passing is a bad thing. Sounds like a no score draw. Given how badly family farmers have screwed up the environment I’m not sure there passing is a bad thing. Sounds like a no score draw.

]]> By: myflathasmould http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/the-business-of-farming/#comment-167 myflathasmould Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:59:40 +0000 http://greenvoices.wordpress.com/?p=278#comment-167 Sums it up well. Every time I go back to where I grew up I see more and more change towards factory farming. Sums it up well. Every time I go back to where I grew up I see more and more change towards factory farming.

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