glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
The word is that all conservation scheme land is to be ploughed this year in case of food shortages.
Tree planting schemes also cancelled.
Tree planting schemes also cancelled.
Is the Government going to abandon conservation schemes ?
- Thread starter glasshouse
- Start date
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Where did you hear this?
gone up the hill
Member
- Location
- Devon
Unless they guarantee a min value of grain etc then how many farmers would actually plant this land?
Because if there ended up with an over supply of grain etc the price would be in freefall come next winter.
And if this true about these schemes then the ELMS scheme is finished and direct/ area payments are here to stay for many years.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I’m not sure if you’ll see another basic payment either the way they are having to spend. Maybe the end of cross compliance and farm for productivity again?
BB
BB
- Location
- North Somerset.
It's called ' start a rumour and see how long it takes to come back to you as fact'
A popular past time As Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying ' don't believe everything you read on the internet'
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I dreamt it
kiwi pom
Member
- Location
- canterbury NZ
Good stuff.
Now what's everyone going to plant?
Now what's everyone going to plant?
gone up the hill
Member
- Location
- Devon
The country is bankrupt now anyway for at least 10 years and they are going to have to pay out hundreds of billions of ££s every year for at least that long to keep the country going and people alive so 3 billion a year to the Ag industry in direct payments will be like a tenner to a normal person on the street for the government.
michael N123
Member
Why don’t they end the AD plant subs and use of red diesel they use good quality land for something that’s not food production
fencing off and planting trees on the useless parts of our fell allotment was the best thing we did on it
fencing off and planting trees on the useless parts of our fell allotment was the best thing we did on it
GeorgeK
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- Location
- Leicestershire
I heard they were sending dead bodies to the AD plants
Hindsight
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
But cross compliance does not have any real effect on productivity.
And then sending them back because of poor gas yield
Lincs Lass
Member
- Location
- north lincs
They should scrap hs2 then and put the land to better use
Hindsight
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Whats the point of ploughing the crap strips round fields that are tufty grass and will cost more to get cultivated than worth. Sounds the sort of thing the radical farmer lobby would say. Better to divert cereals away from meat production into direct consumption. And non food uses - pet food - do we need that. So a far deeper subject.
WARAG next.
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
was thinking about all the malting barley around here......pubs shut and euro 2020 postponed.....who's gonna want beer
Hindsight
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Market will dictate - it will go as animal feed.
- Location
- leics/warks border
That's livestock food in China.