Romanian Farmville becomes farming whilst UK farming becomes Farmville

Romanian Farmville fans claiming £400,000 in government subsidiaries for fake cows is nothing compared to the 
£100,000,000 UK farmers claim off taxpayers 
through fake claims every year.

Compensation paid to Farmers for bovine Tuberculosis infected cattle has been deliberately over payed by the government; resulting in farmers spreading the disease deliberately so that they get more money than the cattle will ever earn for them. 

This has resulted in tax payers forking out up to £100 million too much every year for the past 1o years, just because all political groups have to keep rural communities happy in trying to win the crucial votes in small constituencies that are often the difference between winning and losing an election.

Furthermore, the Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) told me that it is “continuingly trying to instigate a cull of badgers to  reduce the financial and emotional cost to farmers”. However, their own 2008 report shows the majority of financial loses that farmers encounter are nothing to do with bTB.

The full DEFRA report on British cattle for 2008 showed that bTB was responsible for just 10% of premature deaths of cattle over 2 years of age.  

The other 90% were mainly the results of modern farming practices, which increased the rates of cows’ lameness, infertility and mastitis.

Lameness in cattle is mainly due to them not being cared for properly.

In Holland, farmers are fined for having lame cattle, which ensures that they  regularly have their hooves maintained – just like horses have to in the UK.

Infertile cows are the result of diseases, poor nutrition, inadequate herd management, hereditary and congenital factors, hormonal disturbances or environmental changes – in short that’s modern farming practices.

Mastitis which affects most cows, is the inflammation of the mammary glands, causing lumps in the milk and reducing yield. This costs an average of £200 per cow every year to treat; hence acute cases are culled – (Yep, you guessed it) as a result of modern farming practices.

 A majority of modern dairy cows only survive for 3 lactations  (5 - 6 years old), compared with 6 - 12 lactations in the 1970's (9 – 15 years old). 
Whilst the average cost of a high yielding three year old cow (Heifer) is £1700, that goes down though to £1100 when they are a year older.

If cattle are around five years old when they are culled they will be worth a small fraction of that figure. 

The £63 million paid to farmers for 39000 bTB infected cattle means that each one was valued at £1615 – an overpayment of at least £21.5 million if each one is four years old on average when culled. 

It could be much more though, as dairy cows are not bred to produce a high beef yeild, so will be worth just a few hundred pounds when they are a spent force and culled.

 DEFRA though have not included the actual ages of the cattle farmers gained compensation for in their report, therefore we could be looking at a monumental overpayment of compensation to farmers from the government – that reeks of complicity.

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059991389

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/us/politics/in-mississippi-a-divide-on-farm-aid-and-food-stamps.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0