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To pay farmers up to 1.5k/ha to raise the water table 10-4 inches below the surface on peat soils, vegetable cropping would still be allowed for a reduced payment.
All year I assumeWhat In January or July
Kind of allready doing this in a Peat Bog too a lesser extent. its in Higher Mid Tier scheme but it aint going into arable fields no way.To pay farmers up to 1.5k/ha to raise the water table 10-4 inches below the surface on peat soils, vegetable cropping would still be allowed for a reduced payment.
The researcher put down, I questioned the science because I thought wetlands produce a lot of methane.Isn't that going to change the biology of the soil into Anaerobic ?
Becareful about habitat changes
To pay farmers up to 1.5k/ha to raise the water table 10-4 inches below the surface on peat soils, vegetable cropping would still be allowed for a reduced payment.
That's itPaludiculture – the future of farming on peat soils?
On 27 August 2022, the Government announced a new £5m fund to promote the use of peatlands for sustainable farming [1] – the Paludiculture Exploration Fund (PEF), which seeks to unlock barriers to making commercial paludiculture a reality. In this …naturalengland.blog.gov.uk
So you to fit piped land drains with U bends, to control the level of drainage ??
To pay farmers up to 1.5k/ha to raise the water table 10-4 inches below the surface on peat soils, vegetable cropping would still be allowed for a reduced payment.
The researcher put down, I questioned the science because I thought wetlands produce a lot of methane.
No, we can’t read or write, just drive tractors. They’re much cleverererDo they not think if this was viable on a large scale we'd already be doing it. Anything can be made to work with models and trial plots.