The Collapse of Farming
- Created by: emily_w
- Created on: 02-03-15 12:06
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- The Collapse of Farming
- Many British farmers are selling their farms
- Farming is unrewarding: Farmers work 12 hour days for 7 days a week and do not get paid a living wage
- Record number of farmers selling up was in 2006
- Income drops
- The biggest fall in incomes from farming was from 1996 and 2001/2
- Average net farm incomes fell from £80,000 to £2,500
- Recovery in 2002/3: average net income rose to £12,500
- The biggest fall in incomes from farming was from 1996 and 2001/2
- Milk prices
- Costs 21p per litre to produce
- Cheap EU milk forced prices down to 18.5p/litre
- Tesco now pay 22p per litre
- Impacts
- Farmers are selling dairy cows and some are changing to beef cattle
- Farmers may change to growing cereals, and ploughing will alter the landscape
- Price of wheat
- Costs £95 per tonne to produce
- Including the EU subsidy, farmers earned £115 per tonne for wheat
- Impacts
- More chemicals used to increase profits; loss of biodiversity
- More large machinery uses narrow country lanes
- Many British farmers are selling their farms
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