the beginning of the end.

[Tartar Horde]

You're right Steve we have some of the best cereal growing land in Europe, interestingly enough one of the reasons the Romans invaded was the supply of good grain Britannia produced, along with slaves and hunting dogs. Your Farmer friend is no exception as all modern grain production is carried out this way. Chemical fertilisers and fungicides are regularly used, and the stuff they use to "spray off" the crop is in reality a poison to stop the plant growing, nice eh. I had a conversation with a Farmer mate and asked him if he could grow organically . He told me it would take at least five years to get the soil "healthy" again and it would be impossible to grow anything on the land without fertilisers. When you consider a SHTF event where people have to farm again, a lot of the land will in fact be useless and devoid of nutrients to grow crops the old fashioned way. Just think about that for a moment, all land that is now intensively farmed will fail to produce crops if the Chemical feed stops arriving.

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If we could keep the tractors running BP it would be a godsend, but without them, and without the ability to harness Horse or Oxen, ploughing by Manpower must be a nightmare. In the abscence of draft animals I don't know how to prepare the soil any other way than by using hand tools.

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Ps the Romans had a name for the natives of this island, they called us
"Brittunculi" which roughly translated means Wretched/Horrid Britts
I thought Mortblanc might like that