As many forum members will be aware, Natural England have launched a full on assault on keeping livestock on Dartmoor. They’re trying to impose cuts up to 90%, including the 100% removal of winter grazing hill ewes.
They are also known to be gunning for the farmers on West Penwith in Cornwall, and to be targeting big dairy farms on the Somerset Levels with the regional director saying he’ll get them ‘gone inside 10 years’. (see post below).
They’re publicly trying to downplay these goals, while driving them forward behind the scenes. It is clearly based in the ‘rewilding’ ideology, as promoted by (IMO) that horrid little Guardian columnist.
The National Trust are also pursuing similar goals, pushing tenants to either tree-up and rewild, or simply vacate so the NT can do it themselves- as shown by a (much nicer) erstwhile Farmers Weekly columnist.
The ‘carbon’ market is swallowing land wholesale, the protected beavers are expected to flood all kinds of low lying farmland beyond productive ability. It is everywhere.
The aforementioned debate will almost certainly touch on NE’s behaviour elsewhere, and the wider subject.
If you want to see productive farming – at whatever degree of wildlife friendliness- continued in England, then you need to email/write to your MP well before this debate.
Emailing Ministers is almost useless, as they simply bat such things aside.
Your MP needs reminding about the employment and financial implications that arise when large tracts of farmland are simply taken out of production. The fact that many farm operations aren’t very profitable in their own right doesn’t mean they don’t support and employ large numbers of people (taxpaying voting people) downstream. Request detail of how they’ll act.
As social media exposure has shown, the general public are outraged when they realise what the plans will actually mean.
This subject needs exploding now, as the opposite side gain momentum.
PM me if you need further guidance.
They are also known to be gunning for the farmers on West Penwith in Cornwall, and to be targeting big dairy farms on the Somerset Levels with the regional director saying he’ll get them ‘gone inside 10 years’. (see post below).
They’re publicly trying to downplay these goals, while driving them forward behind the scenes. It is clearly based in the ‘rewilding’ ideology, as promoted by (IMO) that horrid little Guardian columnist.
The National Trust are also pursuing similar goals, pushing tenants to either tree-up and rewild, or simply vacate so the NT can do it themselves- as shown by a (much nicer) erstwhile Farmers Weekly columnist.
The ‘carbon’ market is swallowing land wholesale, the protected beavers are expected to flood all kinds of low lying farmland beyond productive ability. It is everywhere.
The aforementioned debate will almost certainly touch on NE’s behaviour elsewhere, and the wider subject.
If you want to see productive farming – at whatever degree of wildlife friendliness- continued in England, then you need to email/write to your MP well before this debate.
Emailing Ministers is almost useless, as they simply bat such things aside.
Your MP needs reminding about the employment and financial implications that arise when large tracts of farmland are simply taken out of production. The fact that many farm operations aren’t very profitable in their own right doesn’t mean they don’t support and employ large numbers of people (taxpaying voting people) downstream. Request detail of how they’ll act.
As social media exposure has shown, the general public are outraged when they realise what the plans will actually mean.
This subject needs exploding now, as the opposite side gain momentum.
PM me if you need further guidance.