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PIG FARMING E-mail
 

Our intrepid agricultural correspondent Duck It's Poo has found this letter recently sent to Secretary of State regards not pig farming in Dorset.

Dear Secretary of State,

My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for £650,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing pigs.

I would now like to join the ‘not rearing pigs’ business. In your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to rear pigs on, and which is the best breed of pigs not to rear? Image

I want to be sure I approach this endeavour in keeping with all government policies, as dictated by the EU under the Common Agricultural Policy.

I would prefer not to raise bacon pigs, but if this is not the type you want not rearing, I will just as gladly not rear porkers.

Are there any advantages in not rearing rare breeds such as Saddlebacks or Gloucester Old Spots, or are there too many people already not rearing these?

As I see it, the hardest thing in this programme will be keeping an accurate record of how many pigs I haven’t reared.

Are there any Government or Local Authority courses on this? My friend is very satisfied with this. He has been rearing pigs for 40 years or so and the best he ever made on them was £1,422 in 1968. That is until this year when he received a cheque for not rearing any.

If I get £3,000 for not rearing 50 pigs, will I get £6,000 for not rearing 100? I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about 4,000 pigs not raised, which will mean about £240,000 for the first year.

As I become more expert in not rearing pigs, I plan to be more ambitious, perhaps increasing to, say, 40,000 pigs not raised in my second year, for which I should expect about £2.4 million from your department.

Incidentally, I wonder if I would be eligible to receive tradable carbon credits for all these not producing harmful and polluting methane gases.

Another point: These pigs that I plan not to rear will not eat 2,000 tonnes of cereals. I understand that you also pay farmers for not growing crops. Will I qualify for payments for not growing cereals to not feed the pigs that I am not going to rear? I am also considering the not milking cows business, so please send any information that you may have on that too.

Please can you also include the current Defra advice on set-aside fields? Can this be done on an e-commerce basis with virtual fields (of which I seem to have several thousand hectares)

In view of the above you will realise that I will be totally unemployed, and will therefore qualify for unemployment benefits.

I shall, of course, be voting for your party at the next general election.

Related: THE BIG BANGER



Users' Comments (2) RSS feed comment
Posted by goccibos, on 10-11-2008 12:13,
I've just realsied that I haven't been breeding pigs now for almost 22 years and as an experienced professional at not breeding pigs I will be applying for a back payment very soon. 
 
Thanks for a useful and informative article. I now realsie why so many people who have never worked in their life get cash from the social. 
 
PS I've also not been a woman for more than 40 years now and never given birth or intend to do so, are there any grants available?
 

Posted by bubbaphatass, on 12-11-2008 15:57,
Whilst not rearing pigs seems to be a plan for the future, I have done quite nicely out of not being disabled, eastern european or a single mother with 3 kids (one of each?). 
May I also suggest that payments are well overdue as I have "set aside" my garden for many years now!
 

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