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GM crop farms filled with weeds
"Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... In sci.agriculture Jim Webster wrote: "Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... In sci.agriculture Jim Webster wrote: "Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... You have a related problem - another unnatural agricultural procedure that was warned about: feeding meat to cattle, causing spread of BSE. and that affects wheat prices exactly how? BSE did impinge on beef prices And there were fewer cattle to feed, no, because beef animals are predominantly a by-product of the dairy industry. I see, dairy cattle not eating animal byproducts, therefore not getting BSE, therefore not being slaughtered and reduced in numbers owing to BSE? Total and utter rubbish, you have missed the point by so much it is hardly worth the effort of correcting you. The number of beef cattle has been falling very slowly over the years as the number of dairy and beef cows has slowly fallen. The biggest cause in the fall in beef numbers is milk quota which, when combined with steadily increasing dairy genetic merit and milk yields has meant there are less milk cows producing the same about of milk and less money to buy grain feed? Ruminants are not big users of wheat, pigs and poultry and the largest users What proportion of UK wheat is bought buy farmers? Then the available storage silos would be getting full sooner, so the wheat would have to go to market without waiting for a better price. Not a problem, the beef industry is not a major user of wheat I see 1/3 of UK wheat goes to animal feed. And a few days ago you wrote: : In the long term, maize has been displaced by wheat in UK diets : purely on price, the last round of CAP reforms cut the market price : of EU produced feed wheat which made maize comparatively expensive : for feed compounders using 'least cost' formulations. When I was a : kid cattle feed was basical ly a mixture of maize and soya, which : is something the UK industry hasn't be en able to afford for over : thirty years. Looks like you were relating of cattle feed. That was why I used the words Cattle feed, because I was relating it to cattle. Indeed the largest consumers of cattle feeds are dairy cows anyway, which is why I said the beef industry is not a major user of wheat. It is remarkably easy to understand if you actually read the words Jim Webster |
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