guzzicat Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 A third of the way through a touring holiday in France,started from Paris, wandering south down to Marseille & I just realised something,in Aberdeenshire we have small farms & HUGE, (mostly new) tractors in Normandy down to the Midi at least the farms are huge,& the tractors small & usually rickety.Do Scots farmers know something French farmers don,t? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Big is best? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Scots farmers know how to play the grants and subsidies game? The French don't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Scots farmers know how to play the grants and subsidies game? The French don't? Don't kid yourself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 I beg to differ, the CAP was invented by the french to keep the notoriously inefficient french farmers happy. Generally the french operate smaller farms than found in the rest of europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teal Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Some farmers are obsessed with willy waving competitions. Not too different to keeping up with the Jones in suburbia, except often their expensive kit is funded by their benefit cheques known as SFP and now BPS. All that glitters isn't necessarily golden, the debt levels on some farms is astounding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Agreed, my Mate leases his Fendt and knows exactly how much he needs to make each month to pay for it. Asset rich but cash poor in a lot of cases but the public think all farmers are rich and get a new Range Rover every year. Some may do, many don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodp Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Scottish farmers, like the rest of Scotland, get subsidised by English taxpayers :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 ###t as a small farmer /crofter i get sweet fa from anyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotslad Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Most farmers wil have there shiny new tractor on the 'never ever' and will just pay 'x' ammount a month, the problem is now there in the system they have to keep going. Modern tractors are **** far to much electrics stour, dust, mud, ****, water and heat are not a good combination for maintaence free tractors in the long term. 2nd hand tractor market is going o be a disaster in a few years as no one will want 1, most are far more complicated than cars now Aye as has been highlighted the whole CAP thing is/was set up to keep the french happy. Few yeas ago i travelled from poland down to Kiev in Ukraine for a fitba game about 18-20 hrs on a train throu some off the most fertile farmland in europe and it was like travelling throu a time machine, people harvesting by hand and using hosre and carts etc really scary how poor they are and how poorly farmed the ground was (althou more to do with politics and the break up of USSR) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 ###t as a small farmer /crofter i get sweet fa from anyone Simple... Get a bigger tractor then. (And a dodgy accent maybe) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted May 27, 2015 Report Share Posted May 27, 2015 Simple... Get a bigger tractor then. (And a dodgy accent maybe) Bigger my accent is dodgy enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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