Didn`t have my glasses on but those close ups didn`t look like clover to me ?How hypocritical of the one farmer, I think a Mr Steele, who went on about cover crops of clover and £40/ ha being enough payment, to then admit he’d sold his sheep and now worked off farm for the soil association
If Packham had told us not to do what he's spent decades doing, farmers would be all over him
Yes Packham runs a tourist business flying folks on wildlife safaris all over the World
Looked like buttercup to me
£40 a hc where do we find the rest of the rent?
I know of the farm as I pass it fairly frequently.. i think you will find the farm lost some acreage of rented ground to a local veg grower, so he has had to adapt to his change in circumstances. I also thought the payment was poor, but he is getting paid for something he has been doing anyway for many years albeit with the flat rate payment. He used to be a vet before coming home to take on the farm.How hypocritical of the one farmer, I think a Mr Steele, who went on about cover crops of clover and £40/ ha being enough payment, to then admit he’d sold his sheep and now worked off farm for the soil association
Off farm job he was promoting too.
Pretty sure they used to have a lot of cows, spuds, maize and corn, 3 brothers farming together or they were when I was there on maize and grass and they had seriously good crops!!!
I've also been round over 20 years ago. My lasting memory was wild oat control using a hand held hedge cutter to cut the heads off before maturity. Not sure how successful that was
And now they testing sheep pee for nitrous gas
nice bit on ploughing with no negative comment .
and a good bit on Grass can sequester carbon
but pathetic 'leaky' dams build
Wonder if they fancy going over to China and sticking their probe about ....
