It could never be good in your bookDon't know if this is good........or bad.........for us that is.
While boris looks on and says great, more food for us to import so we can plant even more trees and save the world
What is the French situation?Calculate production costs with fert and spray.
Are they going to plant oil crop, OSR or sunflowers or cereals? Imo production will be about 3.5 million tons 'extra' or 3.5t per hectare planted, ie half a million X 3.5.
This just my view on things.
Alot round here , If you are hungry , cant afford food or cant source feed and straw for your stock and pay taxes. Whilst your neighbours get paid not to crop with tax payers money - I guess it might leave a "funny taste " in ones mouth as they say .How many hectares would we have in greening anyway? Not enough yet to make a difference?
Will a million German ha replace lost Ukrainian ha ? More ? Less ? I don't know.It could never be good in your book
I believe Ireland is doing a similar U turn, and encouraging domestic food production.
Meanwhile ......
It could well be to feed AD plantsGiven Germany’s reliance on Russian gas maybe non food crops might be the order of the day?
They are lucky to have the diesel to undertake it, !!
I doubt it would even touch the sides. Ukraine is 2.5times the size of France and is known as the bread basket of Europe.Will a million German ha replace lost Ukrainian ha ? More ? Less ? I don't know.
Either way, the price of straw will have to go up....