Conservation Thread

Derrick Hughes

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Location
Ceredigion
I want farmers to plant 100,000 trees in 4 Months I know they can do it because I have planted trees . I've had my hands in the soil my hands in the roots
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Pan mixer

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
I posted these two else where but they need to be here too.

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A big weevil - about 12 mm long - with metallic red back, lives on blackthorn and hawthorn, thought to be extinct in the UK for 150 years but found in the last few years around the Abberton reservoir in Essex and now called the Abberton weevil. seen any @RushesToo ?

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A Wasp Beetle and an Ermine Moth or Brown? Moth caterpillar above.
 

RushesToo

Member
Location
Fingringhoe
I posted these two else where but they need to be here too.

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A big weevil - about 12 mm long - with metallic red back, lives on blackthorn and hawthorn, thought to be extinct in the UK for 150 years but found in the last few years around the Abberton reservoir in Essex and now called the Abberton weevil. seen any @RushesToo ?

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A Wasp Beetle and an Ermine Moth or Brown? Moth caterpillar above.
Will keep an eye out for the chap - but no seen one.
 

Campani

Member
I posted these two else where but they need to be here too.

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A big weevil - about 12 mm long - with metallic red back, lives on blackthorn and hawthorn, thought to be extinct in the UK for 150 years but found in the last few years around the Abberton reservoir in Essex and now called the Abberton weevil. seen any @RushesToo ?
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if they live on hawthorn and blackthorn why are they not found all over the country?
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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