Agricultural Land Use Of?

[bluebell]

Well, well, well, reading in the farming press the UK now barely produces 52 percent of its food recurements, and dropping. So the knows who know?, for the good of the earth food miles, are saying we should aim to produce more ? No one mentions the total lack of profit driving much of the decline ? i. e. beef production being one ? a couple of weeks ago some hairbrained idea in the national press was all going vegetarian, and growing nuts on the uplands to provide the protein in the diet, getting rid of all livestock, and rewilding the rest ? Now i read in the sunday times that some organisation has got a mulimillion pound govt grant to buy up 8,000 acres of prime arable land north of peterborgh to create a wetland wildlife haven? Has the common sense gone from the thinkers of society ? fact there is only a certain amount of land, fact every year 20-30000 acres of good farmland producing or could produce food is lost to development evey year? lost for ever? comments please

 

[Steevo]

mulimillion pound govt grant to buy up 8,000 acres of prime arable land north of peterborgh to create a wetland wildlife haven

I hope they aren't going to remove the hedges, or destroy the current habitat for hedgehogs or farmland birds.

 

[bovrill]

Follow the Crouch down stream from you, and you come to Wallasea island, some of the best wheat producing land in the world.
That was, until the RSPB got their hands on it, and with lots of money from Crossrail to front a propaganda campaign to make the damage more palatable, destroyed the island by dumping all the tunneling waste on it (4.5 million tons!), and pulling the seawall apart to let the North sea in to wash the spoil away (and clog up nearby estuaries, ports and marinas) rather than just dumping it out in deep water in the first place.
I've no doubt that in a few decades it will become sea and saltmarsh, as it was before the Dutch built the walls 3 or 400 years ago, but we've lost a couple of thousand acres of very productive arable land.
(It's worth Googling the RSPBs side of things, if only to be gobsmacked by the rubbish they spout about 'saving' things, and very little mention of the massive backhander from the developers, but lots about how you can donate to help them!)

 

[teslacoils]

Many, more prosperous countries are much less sufficient in food. Food production is low income. So don't do it. As you've said, there are many other uses of land, hair brained or not. So take their money.

 

[lim x]

What is this obsession with 'organisations' wanting to rewild or whatever in the name of wildlife havens when all you have to do is take a look at our patchwork quilt of Green and Pleasant land which is already doing the job perfectly well.

Just some do Gooding barsteward's from the city think they know best.

Don't try and fix what ain't broke ?

 

[Steevo]

What is this obsession with 'organisations' wanting to rewild or whatever in the name of wildlife havens when all you have to do is take a look at our patchwork quilt of Green and Pleasant land which is already doing the job perfectly well.

Just some do Gooding barsteward's from the city think they know best.

Don't try and fix what ain't broke ?

It’s all about them trying to create a purpose for themselves. Tell people there’s a problem then convince them only you can fix it.

That way they won’t realise that either the problem doesn’t exist, or that it’s small enough that they could easily solve it themselves for a fraction of the cost.

It’s no better than some of those Rogue Traders on Watchdog!