Stark choice of personal investment, or losing the farm.

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This week we take a look at Rob Mason's dairy farm in Lancashire. He's milking a couple of hundred cows and in order to keep up with government regulations he needs to increase his amount of slurry storage.
Unfortunately he's not eligible for the Slurry Infrastructure Grant so will have to fund everything himself, or face the agonising decision to give up the farm.
Have you had a similar experience, we'd love to know.
Over in Cheshire, Angela visits the Ashley Waller Hay & Straw sales. So we hear how prices are faring this week.
What's your experience of buying/selling currently. Are you paying/getting what it's worth?
Please let us know in the comments.
Or email us at vids@therealcountryfile.co.uk

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@andrewriches506 5 ай бұрын

Eight million quid a day to house people in comfortable hotels but nothing for the FARMER disgraceful.

@Kaii_679 5 ай бұрын

I'm not a farmer but I live near dairy, horticulture and chicken farmers who are in the same situation and to understand the fear they live in on day to day basis not knowing what outcome they will be in future!!!! And yet funding is wasted elsewhere, makes no sense at all with this current government who's in charge really......

@DaveG7920 5 ай бұрын

"Nothing" Rubbish farmers have lots of help, never enough though is it.

@theeleo 5 ай бұрын

Could the real country file do a video on the nfu/rt/supermarkets..etc... currently voting behind the farmers back with this green thing?????

@sammorton4576 5 ай бұрын

Straw prices over here in the west of Ireland at the moment is €50 for round bales and €100 for 8×4×3 . Small squares are €5 .

@TheFarmerTheCheesemaker 5 ай бұрын

In Maine, USA straw this year is selling for $10/ small square! So $400/ton! 😮 Mostly barley and oat. Mostly goes for horses. Couldn’t consider bedding our cows at that…

@EddieRedX5 5 ай бұрын

Excellent video Rob & Stephen this grant job isn’t fair everyone should be able to get a grant especially on slurry stores they. Want you have six months storage when your talking figures like over 200 K it’s a. Tremendous lot of money. Basically they don’t want to know about proper farmers these days anyway Rob good luck for the future and Stephen great seeing you again. 😊

@roberthiggins6401 5 ай бұрын

They want farmers to go out of business or not put the investment in. Regards the slurry. If you're not a high priority area, it's not a high priority! Surely? Doesn't make sense to critical thinking!

@DJC995 5 ай бұрын

Nice One Thanks again

@henryrobinson2937 5 ай бұрын

He’s one of the lucky ones if he only has to paint it green… had reports of councils stopping developments like this from happening. Right arm doesn’t know what the left is doing…

@trevorsidley7697 5 ай бұрын

A reasonable person would think the Government want's to stop all Farming in the UK.

@ianmarshall170 5 ай бұрын

Because we can live without food but not nice nails & tattoos!!! Mmm priorities?

@jaybernieschoep3491 5 ай бұрын

rock valley iowa has rockvalley hay and straw auctions i think monday and thursday, rock valley iowa usa

@nancysmith-baker1813 5 ай бұрын

I am not a farmer , but heard its hard for the cattle people and sheep . Whete ever you live . Thankyou for the report .

@johnhyde8892 5 ай бұрын

I applied for a calf grant to build a new building, but i am not entitled to A SFI grant. I have zero grants or loans, on the farm very difficult to invest in the farm.

@macfarms 5 ай бұрын

Doesnt seem that unreasonable to require 6 months of storage.

@johnwarwick4105 2 ай бұрын

£200k invested in a rented farm doesn’t make sense to me, I wonder what he had to use as collateral for the loan 🤷‍♂️

@roberthiggins6401 5 ай бұрын

Bloody tick boxes! Not one size fits all always!

@themunter4488 5 ай бұрын

6 months storage !!! Do the idiots at Defra actually understand real life ?? ( I think I might know the answer).

@michaelbradley4552 5 ай бұрын

Like I always say the government don't want farmers as they are the biggest landowners

@DaveG7920 5 ай бұрын

This guy doesn't own the land, his issue is with the landlord not the government. Should we just let slurry and effluent go down the drain?

@rossstorrs6976 5 ай бұрын

The government wouldn't give him the grant not the landlord open them ears Dave

@JP-gi2pr 5 ай бұрын

Sure there is so much sewage getting rivers some cattle slurry wouldn't be noticed !! I jest ...but where's the support for this man ?

@sarahann530 5 ай бұрын

He needs to talk to the person that owns the land . Why should the taxpayer pay his way

@richardmatthews3304 5 ай бұрын

@@sarahann530 if the landlord paid he would just raise the rent so the tennant would still have to pay

@johnwarwick4105 2 ай бұрын

@@sarahann530I here what you say but if the government banned for example all diesel vehicles ( making yours worthless would you expect some compensation?)

@sarahann530 2 ай бұрын

@@johnwarwick4105 They are not banned they just can't be produced new .. Its not uncommon to have products banned or alternatives being introduced as environmental , safety or health concerns have been identified .It is quite common in industry and construction . . For example asbestos is no longer used and buildings with asbestos have serious abatement costs so are not worth as much .

@DaveG7920 5 ай бұрын

If you want to keep stock you need to collect the slurry, simple. I can't believe there's still farms out there with no storage. It's been talked about for decades. I'm not sure why governments need to pay for it. His issue is with the person who owns the land.

@richardmatthews3304 5 ай бұрын

It's not that simple is it. It all depends how long the tenancy is for and how much the rent is. Why would the landowner want to spend £250000 on a slurry store, the only way he can do that is by raising the rent to the tennant, the rent would need to go up by at least 30,000 a year to pay for it. The real problem is economy of scale he had plenty of storage for 80 cows but because of greedy supermarkets a family can't make a good living out of 80 cows and need to spread costs over extra cows, the consumer needs to pay extra for the milk then the milk sales would pay for the slurry store

@DaveG7920 5 ай бұрын

@@richardmatthews3304 It really is that simple, it's not the taxpayers fault he doesn't own the farm and wants to milk more cows. The Landlord doesn't even care or they would help. Expanding costs hundreds of thousands on other things too, that are bought without thinking but people think they can get away with no storage and the government should pay if not. If it's not financially viable he should do something else. Plenty of others can comply with the regulations without handouts.

@richardmatthews3304 5 ай бұрын

@@DaveG7920 really there seem to be plenty of dairy farmers giving up at the moment, are you farming yourself

@thecvxman 5 ай бұрын

Whats a subsidy? Why should you be subsidised? I’m have a dairy farm in nz and built an 8million litre pond as that was.required, no such thing as a subsidy I do it

@DaveG7920 5 ай бұрын

They're addicted to handouts.

@hughmarcus1 5 ай бұрын

What regulations do you face though?

@thecvxman 5 ай бұрын

Enough to have to build an 8000m3 storage pond. Certain application depth, timing, placement, recording etc etc, what's your point? @@hughmarcus1

@IanPritchard 5 ай бұрын

The death of a thousand slashes for farming, thanks to the govt's adherence to Agenda 2030 (control and, as mad as it sounds, ultimately, depopulation - look at the roots of the policies for evidence of that last claim). in the short term the capital outlays needed also suit the financiers.

@jonathanmormerod 5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣 I suppose the depopulation thing is going to be achieved with chemtrails & 5G in your world.🤡🤡

@IanPritchard 5 ай бұрын

@@jonathanmormerod Like I said, it does sound mad, but I can tell already that you haven't even read Agenda 2030, let alone know who started it.

@squallymedal8516 5 ай бұрын

@@jonathanmormerod👈🐑

@bencarter2334 5 ай бұрын

@@jonathanmormerodwe were told not to listen to Neil Oliver regarding COVID vaccination. Turns out there's been 100k excess deaths since jan22. So maybe we should open our eyes to what's going on. Just saying 😂.

@hughmarcus1 5 ай бұрын

It’s actually more about Brexit & the lies around that. There’s £2.6Billion missing now that was there under CAP.

@keithwheeler8875 5 ай бұрын

Wow cant believe that change the regulations then dont give you financial help to put a slurry store in places Ridiculous

@johnberry1107 5 ай бұрын

The business can not support itself? Stay safe. Why are farmers always looking for handouts?

@wyndhamhewlett8223 5 ай бұрын

NOBODY'S SPEAKING ABOUT AGENDA 2030?? WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM!!

@jonathanmormerod 5 ай бұрын

That's because it's something that should be stored in a million gallon tank.🤡🤡

@dominik8478 5 ай бұрын

I'm sorry, but anyone who spreads their manure on water-saturated soils for 20 years at the expense of the environment, the groundwater, at the expense of society, contrary to scientific research and their responsibility, with only 4 weeks of storage volume, should not receive any grant.