All year round strawberries at Beeswax Carrington.

[Wolds Beef]

Surely if they can do this we can do it with other crops and cut our imports. Passed the Carrington yard yesterday, it gets bigger every time I go past!! We used to have pony club camp there but you would not recognise the place now!!
WB

 

[Lowland1]

As long as they don't do all round broccoli it's fine but it cant be cheap to do. I presume it runs on the AD plant so a byproduct of electricity is food. Thats new.
I correct myself i think some of the old coal powered powerstations used to do tomatoes.

 

[Wolds Beef]

If you read the article on UKfarming they are using the heat the electric and everything, surely we could do veg that way!! @Lowland1 !! Staples my next door nieghbours, Nundys, and others must be shaking in their boots!!
WB

 

[essexpete]

If you read the article on UKfarming they are using the heat the electric and everything, surely we could do veg that way!! @Lowland1 !! Staples my next door nieghbours, Nundys, and others must be shaking in their boots!!
WB

Is that not what our esteemed @Cowabunga was on about earlier in the year? Perhaps more vertically as well.

 

[Will Wilson]

https://bomgroup.nl/en/news/low-carbon-farming

29 ha in Norfolk - even bigger.

 

[Highland Mule]

As long as they don't do all round broccoli it's fine but it cant be cheap to do. I presume it runs on the AD plant so a byproduct of electricity is food. Thats new.
I correct myself i think some of the old coal powered powerstations used to do tomatoes.

There’s a crocodile farm in France that uses the waste heat from the local nuclear station.

 

[teslacoils]

https://bomgroup.nl/en/news/low-carbon-farming

29 ha in Norfolk - even bigger.

Bet that was dear. Water company? Pension fund?

 

[Exfarmer]

Bet that was dear. Water company? Pension fund?

its AWA doing it I believe 2 sites the one near Bury st Edmunds is close to completion I understand.

 

[Lowland1]

There’s a crocodile farm in France that uses the waste heat from the local nuclear station.

Crocodiles and nuclear power ! I think I've seen a film about that Giant Crocodiles roaming the South of France not good.

 

[Highland Mule]

Crocodiles and nuclear power ! I think I've seen a film about that Giant Crocodiles roaming the South of France not good.

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Pierrelatte - Crocodile Farm - The Green Guide Michelintravelguide.michelin.com › ... › Pierrelatte › To visit

 

[bovrill]

I think Wissington beet factory built a lot of glass houses, but couldn't make tomatoes pay, so grow cannabis instead now! https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/wi...nabis-family-crop-to-treat-epilepsy-1-4748909

 

[melted welly]

Crocodiles and nuclear power ! I think I've seen a film about that Giant Crocodiles roaming the South of France not good.

From the director who brought us sharknado?

 

[teslacoils]

I think Wissington beet factory built a lot of glass houses, but couldn't make tomatoes pay, so grow cannabis instead now! https://www.edp24.co.uk/business/wi...nabis-family-crop-to-treat-epilepsy-1-4748909

Ace. If I set off now I can pick some Bateman's beer up at skeg on the way. Beer, sugar and weed. Sounds like an ace weekend. Is the a pizza and kebab place nearby - I hear there is sod all at wissington.

 

[Lowland1]

From the director who brought us sharknado?

Les crocodille avec deux tetes!!!

 

[uztrac]

British Sugar have a massive tomato operation at their Wissington Factory using surplus heat & power from the refining process.

 

[bovrill]

Ace. If I set off now I can pick some Bateman's beer up at skeg on the way. Beer, sugar and weed. Sounds like an ace weekend. Is the a pizza and kebab place nearby - I hear there is sod all at wissington.

Meth World is just up the road!

(Methwold, but the name makes me chuckle!)

 

[Yale]

Meth World is just up the road!

(Methwold, but the name makes me chuckle!)

He’d be proud.

 

[Exfarmer]

British Sugar have a massive tomato operation at their Wissington Factory using surplus heat & power from the refining process.

They have given up on most of the tomatoes , These other outfits have benefited from RHI and other subsidies which I think BS were too early for

 

[teslacoils]

Meth World is just up the road!

(Methwold, but the name makes me chuckle!)

I looked at a farm at a place called Methwold hythe....

 

[SRRC]

Had a fascinating visit to Thanet Earth, they produce about 400 million tomatoes a year using terrific tech. But they were frank that it was the RHI that gave the best margins, and that getting a decent premium to have British tomatoes all winter was a challenge as imported were cheaper.