Re: [LUG] OT:Agricultural Census 2010

[tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

george parker wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 February 2010, richard wrote:
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> > tom wrote:
> >     
> > > richard wrote:
> > >       
> > > > tom wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > richard wrote:
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> :
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> >  if you only get a ton of wheat you are going very wrong somewhere!
> > commercial potatoes should produce about 20 tons/acre, and beef 300kg
> > livewieght or more. By the way feeding household waste to pigs is now
> > illegal!
> > for their justification  of their  method see ;
> > http://www.defra.gov.uk/esg/work_htm/publications/cs/farmstats_web/1_ABOUT_
> > THE_SURVEY/FAQs_ABOUT_THE_DATA_AND_SURVEY/Introduction.htm#samplingstrategy
> >     
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> Is feeding household waste to pigs illegal because what the average household 
> now eats isn't good for pigs?
>
>   
The excuse is health reasons but its really just to push up the price 
for the small producer.  Bernard Mathews manages to regularly give his 
turkeys bird flu from processed catering waste - but thats packed in 
pretty bags and imported.
Tom te tom te tom


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