FARM
TIFF
lamb: £4/ kg (of dead weight)
live weight: 45kg, dead weight approx 50%, i.e. 22kg.
organic premium: 5 to 40p /kg
sell lamb at wrong time, ie. when there are no organic buyers/ no demand, then you have to sell at non-organic price, so no premium
Why are food prices lower than they should be?
A: aggressive competition between supermarkets. Price lowered; primary producers take the biggest hit.
cattle dead weigh also about 50%?
pig dead weight about 75%
Dead weight? The carcass of useable meat after you have taken out/off the non-useables.
Farm Income Breakdown
agriculture/ farming produce
rural farm payments (subsidies and derivations of)
environmental schemes
tourism
and??
Leaders scheme: grants to invest in technologies that create efficiencies - e.g. digital livestock weights
NZ subsidies - bad example cus: they have an 11 month growing season
which means they can graze sheep on grass 11 months of year with minimal investment in silage, hay making etc.
basic payment scheme (BPS)
the main rural payment for farmers in the EU.
orgs
DEFRA
RPA: Rural Payments Agency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Payments_Agency
Total Income From Farming
paid by the Rural Payments Agency for DEFRA
The Single Payment Scheme was replace with the Basic Payment Scheme in 2015
The RPA delivers the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments to farmers and traders in England, paying out over £2 billion in subsidies each year.
Countryside Stewardship Scheme
Environmental stewardship replaces the older Countrysider Stewardshire Scheme