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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:25:40 -0000, David P
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:12:05 -0000, David P
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 23:23:24 -0600, "Gordon Couger"
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Farming is a cycical bussness. If we ran and hid at every down market you
would be rather short on food.

But that isn't the point. UK had in 1996 a farm income peak, the
highest in 20 years. The Times could see what would come after, so why
couldn't the farmers.

How would you have managed the situation? Sold and run?

You mean, sell my hypothetical UK farmland? Hell no, David, no way,
not in 1996, just a few years after the CAP reform :-)

Would your advice have been for *everyone* to do that?

That's even more hypothetical, what kind of questioning is that?

A fairly logical one .. . you were impling that the people who were still
farming were short-sighted. I was merely attempting to discover what you
would have done had you been unfortunate enough to be a farmer.

But
no, David, of course I wouldn't.

Why? You clearly feel that the farmers who stuck with it should have
sold out. Why would you not take your own advice?

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David
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