hedge removal

primmiemoo

Member
Location
Devon
Been talking about this, today. With all the options we have now, if anyone with hedges feels that any of them are in need of removal, surely they're doing something wrong in either their farming or their "lifestyle".
 

lloyd

Member
Location
Herefordshire
You can still remove hedges on Ag land, you just need planning permission these days.
If you have a valid reason (like making fields more efficient) then it’s just a formality I understand.

Not sure it's that easy anymore.
Seem to remember farmers being turned down
just because they can.
 

An Gof

Member
Location
Cornwall
Been talking about this, today. With all the options we have now, if anyone with hedges feels that any of them are in need of removal, surely they're doing something wrong in either their farming or their "lifestyle".

Well I have some hedges that I think are in need of removal …. Only wish they had been taken out years ago.
I’m sure there are plenty who could tell me that both my farming and my lifestyle was wrong 🤣
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Ooh! I bet you are one of those that used to shoot robins with an air rifle.
That would be a pointless cruel wanton waste so I’d never do such a thing.
But if I could I would take out 100 yards of crappy old hedge to make two 12 acre fields into one nice long 24 acre field and avoid all the wasted time and diesel and compaction with having to turn the machinery round twice as many times as necessary. On the scale of things half a dozen birds nests is neither here nor there. As I say, far more are lost due to uncontrolled birds of prey, magpies and domestic moggies but nobody bothers about that.
 

primmiemoo

Member
Location
Devon
Well I have some hedges that I think are in need of removal …. Only wish they had been taken out years ago.
I’m sure there are plenty who could tell me that both my farming and my lifestyle was wrong 🤣

Point taken 😀 , but most hedges that were removed were removed decades ago. Hedges are havens for wild flora and fauna ~ better than beetle banks, I've been told ~ and we do have ways of farming that takes account of them.
 

Kidds

Member
Horticulture
That would be a pointless cruel wanton waste so I’d never do such a thing.
But if I could I would take out 100 yards of crappy old hedge to make two 12 acre fields into one nice long 24 acre field and avoid all the wasted time and diesel and compaction with having to turn the machinery round twice as many times as necessary. On the scale of things half a dozen birds nests is neither here nor there. As I say, far more are lost due to uncontrolled birds of prey, magpies and domestic moggies but nobody bothers about that.
You wouldn't do it while the birds were nesting though would you?
That is what the thread is about and the fact that it would be a cruel wanton waste to do so.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 30 16.5%
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    Votes: 3 1.6%
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    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 5 2.7%

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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