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At this year’s Cereals Event held in June, NFU President Minette Batters, urged arable farmers to engage with politicians in a ‘Post Brexit Britain’ as she launched the 2019 NFU #YourHarvest campaign. She also highlighted the cereals sector’s importance to the entire agricultural industry asking politicians not to forget it. Also on the same day the Government announced far-reaching
measures to commit the UK to net zero emissions by 2050, responding to which Ms Batters called climate change ‘the story of our time’. She emphasised the NFU’s committed to net zero by 2040 and stated that agricultural industry is now presented as part of the solution. Frankly I’m uneasy about the glib climate promises the NFU are
making in the name of British Farming. Theresa May’s last gasp policy to force the UK in ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050 has not even been formally costed by the Treasury. Although Philip Hammond has warned that the cost “is likely to be well in excess of a trillion pounds”. The NFU are supporting the policy of an outgoing Prime Minister
who is trying to bind the country to a vast commitment where in all probability many of its costs will fall on ordinary people. Energy bills will rise for manufacturers and consumers alike; in fact
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businesses will bear a huge part of the cost. Manufacturing businesses could hardly be blamed if they move their factories, emissions, jobs and all, overseas to more business friendly governments, heading the same way as car manufacturing has due in part to the Government’s ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2040. I accept we need a strategy going forward, although there are
serious questions from both within and without the scientific community as to the evidence for climate change and the efficacy of measures proposed to counteract it.
Scale of transformation However, to reach the target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 or as the NFU have declared 2040 in UK Agriculture, the scale of transformation will be immense with significant changes to UK farmland. The Woodland Trust say 1.5 billion trees will need to be planted to
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cancel out carbon caused by residual emissions such as cattle rearing and aviation and biofuel crops. That’s 267 acres a day of new woodland from now until 2050. In the world of crop production, 2019 may well be a reasonable
year as combinable crop profitability could continue in the short term, due in part to the weakness of sterling as opposed to the strength of many businesses. However, to remain successful in the long term, farming businesses
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must reassess their operations, investments and borrowing to remain viable. In the arable sector high costs, lack of break crops and stagnant yields need addressing and many combinable cropping farms will need
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