Lapwing nest predation

[Smellydog]

Net migration is falling.

Is that due to Brits leaving?
Does that include illegal migrants?

 

[VSS]

Is that due to Brits leaving?
Does that include illegal migrants?

I haven't looked at the breakdown of figures. It's irrelevant really, but the information is readily available to anyone who wants to study it in more detail. But yes, "illegal" immigration is factored into the net migration figure.

My main point was that migration currently isn't having a significant impact on our food resources.

 

[kevtherev]

Im with you

You took my comment out of context - what i meant was for lapwing / Curlew these monocultures are not such as issue as the improved grassland priduces - waist high grass - therefore not habitat really for Curlew or lapwing - and therefore "maybe" when cutting for silage - certainly in my experience the birds and animals killed in there are smaller than if the habitat was better

But i agree - some of modern farming is just like factories sadly

Where I stated above 1950s style farming should be changed to low input farming as the point I was making was farmers in the 50s had limited access to chemical inputs.
That really didn’t come into widespread fashion until the 1960s 70s with the drive for production with capital grants for improvement and the vast changes that brought to uk agriculture as a whole.
Trends change patterns move.

 

[VSS]

Where I stated above 1950s style farming should be changed to low input farming as the point I was making was farmers in the 50s had limited access to chemical inputs.
That really didn’t come into widespread fashion until the 1960s 70s with the drive for production with capital grants for improvement and the vast changes that brought to uk agriculture as a whole.
Trends change patterns move.

I suggest you Google
"agrochemical use in the 1950s uk"
You might be in for a shock!
The 1950s were considered "the golden age" for pesticides, which were largely unregulated (think DDT for starters), and artificial fertiliser use was booming.
Are you sure that's what you want to go back to?

 

[Tim.243]

I suggest you Google
"agrochemical use in the 1950s uk"
You might be in for a shock!
The 1950s were considered "the golden age" for pesticides, which were largely unregulated, and artificial fertiliser use was booming.
Are you sure that's what you want to go back to?

In the keepers shed defiantly, I know of Strychnine is a highly toxic, bitter, colourless crystalline alkaloid used primarily as a pesticide for small vertebrates. It is extremely dangerous and, if swallowed, inhaled, or absorbed, causes severe muscular convulsions, "awake seizures," and death by asphyxiation
Then all the other types from that era

 

[kevtherev]

I suggest you Google
"agrochemical use in the 1950s uk"
You might be in for a shock!
The 1950s were considered "the golden age" for pesticides, which were largely unregulated (think DDT for starters), and artificial fertiliser use was booming.
Are you sure that's what you want to go back to?

Most definitely not
Bit of Cymag could be useful though.
We didn’t use pesticides here in the 50s and barely use any agrochemicals or heavy amounts of fertilisers.
Mostly use muck and cycling of nutrients.
Low bought in inputs.
Non arable too so slightly different to other farming areas.

 

[jall55]

Usually when man gets more efficient it's at a huge cost elsewhere.

Maybe if we stopped the illegal invasion food production wouldn't be so pressured....

Its not a lack of food SD - its the idiots that waste so much and the regulations that also make so many businesses do the same

 

[wisp]

Bloody hell, another Warwickshire man of similar age, must be something in the water that keept us alive.
Curing pork, done an awful lot of that in my youth. Salt pork,ham,gammon, bacon, chitterlings etc. All a lot more good for you than Evangelical conservationists with a doctorate.

Chitterlings now your talking especially when heated up

 

[Ratel]

Chitterlings now your talking especially when heated up

Yep I used to have to clean them. 1/2" Thick peeled hazel stick thread on and clean then turn inside out and clean that side. Wash the hodge out and then plait the chitterlings put them in it and sew up. Mother used to cook it and we mainly had it sliced cold the next day with vinegar bread and butter. Preferred that to hot. Salting hams in a lead trough, saltpetre round the bones to keep the flies out and hang in the kitchen or washhouse.
Happy days, far less complicated all you needed was a warm place, clothes and good grub. Maybe a catty and half a dozen rabbit snares as well.

 

[wisp]

Your last post brings back a load of memories
Especially as a youngster helping my father deliver papers standing on thr running board of the car n calling at Mabel’s
Farm n being told to cut your own slice of smoked bacon which was hanging from a hook in oakbeam in the roof of the kitchen
Thing is Granny’s house was only half a mile away .
Also I’d never seen a single yolked egg until I was10 years old I thought all eggs were double yolked