Always a risk ploughing flood plain for crops but its fertile land so some take that risk. How they got planning to build a farm on flood plain takes some understanding but i expect there was always some sort of dwelling there. I can see a time where farmers will have to be paid to flood farmland and all flood plains will not be allowed to be ploughed or fertilised in anyway . I have seen an awful lot of slurry spread during last weeks frosts on ground nr to rivers on fields that would have been waterlogged two weeks ago and its doing farmings image no good.Good report of the flooding in Lincolnshire. Well done that young man. I know it helped because such vast area was flooded but surely it finally got through to some that you can either grow crops, or have planed flood plain but you can not have both and it be economically viable. Or you do what they have done for centuries and its grassland and you have livestock on it, and pull them off in winter. Food has to come from somewhere.
Bransby Rest Home for Horses bought flood risk land , mainly 2 and 3, stocked with ponies and have been asking for donations to rescue ponies off their own land, even 2007 when they owned the land it flooded then.
Floodplains floodplain surely regardless of whats being grown or could grow. Probably better to sell them the land and move on perhaps?Big compo if grade 1 spud land not rubbish old perm pasture too?
Not a flood plain that area. There is a specific area just a little further down stream that can be flooded intentionally during high rainfall times.Always a risk ploughing flood plain for crops but its fertile land so some take that risk. How they got planning to build a farm on flood plain takes some understanding but i expect there was always some sort of dwelling there. I can see a time where farmers will have to be paid to flood farmland and all flood plains will not be allowed to be ploughed or fertilised in anyway . I have seen an awful lot of slurry spread during last weeks frosts on ground nr to rivers on fields that would have been waterlogged two weeks ago and its doing farmings image no good.
I would imagine the land has been drained for agriculture for a long time, and it wasn't expected to flood, or if it did not much.Always a risk ploughing flood plain for crops but its fertile land so some take that risk. How they got planning to build a farm on flood plain takes some understanding but i expect there was always some sort of dwelling there. I can see a time where farmers will have to be paid to flood farmland and all flood plains will not be allowed to be ploughed or fertilised in anyway . I have seen an awful lot of slurry spread during last weeks frosts on ground nr to rivers on fields that would have been waterlogged two weeks ago and its doing farmings image no good.
A bit of the history behind it (From the Lincolnshire Life)....the land has been drained for agriculture for a long time
just watched toms heap of sh!t 11 acres run down holding would that feed you never mind the nation or am i negative
looked better than my place lolOne mans rubbish is another man treasure.
A bit of the history behind it (From the Lincolnshire Life)....
Draining the Fens
Words: Alan Middleton
Featured in the March 2014 issue
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Most of Lincolnshire is only a few metres above sea level and river flooding is only prevented by drainage.
It is common in our county to see fields bordered by drainage ditches and rivers with embankments on each side to protect the surrounding farmland. Early drainage schemes, dug manually, suffered constant delays over centuries due to political and legal difficulties. Serious opposition came from small freeholders, tenant farmers and commoners who, for generations, had made a living by fishing, wildfowling, keeping geese and ducks, gathering reeds and fodder. And to make matters worse in the eyes of the opponents, many of the workers employed on these drainage schemes were foreigners.
the old fens sound quite nice.....but it just shows when something is deemed needed to be done it is done at whatever social cost......must fear for upland farming if tree planting brigade get going