The Environment

-In the last 10 years, British Farmers have planted more than 6,000 miles of new hedgerow, providing a home for birds, animals, and insects

-More than 25,000 British Farmers participate in long-term environmental conservation schemes to enhance natural habitats and protect wildlife

-British Farmers have planted 87 million trees in ten years

-British Farmers are responsible for managing 75% of all UK land, producing two-thirds of all food eaten in Britain.

-British Farmers maintain over 200,000 ponds in England and Wales, an increase of 12,200 on the number in 1990

If you care about the countryside, you should care about British Farming.

The Figures

-Farming employs over 550,000 people

-British-grown flowers, bulbs, and plants contribute over £720 million a year to the rural economy

-Last year, agriculture contributed over £7 billion to the national economy
British wheat is exported to over 20 countries around the world
Farming is the backbone of a countryside tourism industry worth £12 billion

Food

-British Farmers produce enough beef and lamb for over 500 million Sunday roasts every year

-There are more free-range hens in the UK than anywhere else in Europe
British Farmers produce 68 million pints of fresh milk every day

-9 million loaves of bread are baked in Britain every day

-The barley produced by British Farmers helps make the 218 pints of beer and lager that the average person drinks in a year

-Every year, we eat 560 million bacon butties

-British growers produce over 100 different crops of fruits, vegetables, salads, and herbs

If you care about the food you eat, you should care about British Farming.

Getting up at 7am is a lie-in

You've run over your own cat in a tractor

When someone says they live on an estate you think of fields and woods rather than a barratts development

You tut at people in tesco buying danish bacon and french bread

You don't sit down to a single hot meal in august

You fall asleep with-in 3 minutes of sitting down in front of the t.v

Your sun tan ends just above the elbow in the summer

You've had a live lamb in your aga

You get more letters from DEFRA than you do from friends and family

You only take the kids to the seaside when it rains

You can't drive along a road anywhere in britain without studying everyone else's crop's and livestock

There is small heaps of grain outside the back door of the house every summer

Drilling does not mean putting holes through interior walls

Dress sense means cutting down on nitrogen applications

Your 4x4 acctually goes off road

You get frustrated by people calling straw "hay"

Your ideal holiday is to visit other peoples farms

Your hands look like they are made with the same material as your boots

Your bag on your hoover is full of grain from july to september

The faint (but agreeable) smell of disel never leaves you

You most valued possession is your pen knife

A lamb follows the children into the kitchen and no one thinks its unusal

You confidently walk arround the supermarket in wellies

Your lawn include hundreds of cattle hoof prints

You open a bale and discover an old mobile phone (or wallet)

Your alarm clock is set to farming today, even though you hate it now

You've got the RPA's number on speed dial in your phone

When you listen to radio 4's the archers and think how hoppy all the characters are

A good holiday is a week in the west coast in november

Track and field has nothing to do with athletics

You drive your new telehandler repeatedly past your neighbour's yard until someone appears

You feel naked without baler twine in your pocket

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