You can leave grass ungrazed.. harvest the seed then bale the dry stalk.. put it through a pelleter..dry it and sell it as fuel... you dont have to use livestock.. its a choice... your choiceGrass only has an economic use when processed through ruminant animals with an end market value….Hence grass and the very reason hedges were planted to create fields can’t fit any sort of vegan agenda…
Some of ours you cannot as the mod kindly left a feck load of concrete bases and roads in it.You can leave grass ungrazed.. harvest the seed then bale the dry stalk.. put it through a pelleter..dry it and sell it as fuel... you dont have to use livestock.. its a choice... your choice
Blair was nearly two decades ago. Tories have been in power / control since 6 May 2010, so 11 years by my reckoning. And yet we till blame Blair. If Tories think that was a poor contract what was and is to stop them renegotiating. When will folk stop blaming Blair this Century or next? No apologist for Blair but feck his cock ups were a long time ago. Bad as these Tories still blaming the EU - they took back control, so get on with change then. Rant over, standing down for coffee.£15 a jab apparently, an extra £5 on weekends !! And ,of course they get the nurses to do it! All down to the great negotiation by Blair government.
And what would you propose be done with grass seed from 23 million acres … maybe landfill where it can produce methane ?You can leave grass ungrazed.. harvest the seed then bale the dry stalk.. put it through a pelleter..dry it and sell it as fuel... you dont have to use livestock.. its a choice... your choice
No.. give it to my livestock neighbours because i cant sell it to them?? Maybe??And what would you propose be done with grass seed from 23 million acres … maybe landfill where it can produce methane ?
A very accurate and pertinent rant it is too....Blair was nearly two decades ago. Tories have been in power / control since 6 May 2010, so 11 years by my reckoning. And yet we till blame Blair. If Tories think that was a poor contract what was and is to stop them renegotiating. When will folk stop blaming Blair this Century or next? No apologist for Blair but feck his cock ups were a long time ago. Bad as these Tories still blaming the EU - they took back control, so get on with change then. Rant over, standing down for coffee.
Sounds like a perfect site for a few windmills? Or trees or just cut high??Some of ours you cannot as the mod kindly left a feck load of concrete bases and roads in it.
Not enough wind and it’s worth something for grazing, be worth feck all with trees.Sounds like a perfect site for a few windmills? Or trees or just cut high??
Don’t worry we will be blaming BoJo for decades and decadesBlair was nearly two decades ago. Tories have been in power / control since 6 May 2010, so 11 years by my reckoning. And yet we till blame Blair. If Tories think that was a poor contract what was and is to stop them renegotiating. When will folk stop blaming Blair this Century or next? No apologist for Blair but feck his cock ups were a long time ago. Bad as these Tories still blaming the EU - they took back control, so get on with change then. Rant over, standing down for coffee.
Sounds like you have a money making plan then.well doneNot enough wind and it’s worth something for grazing, be worth feck all with trees.
I have read the policy paper you posted and agree that this will not happen as it might envoke some common sense... try lobbying EFRA directly??Thanks for reading. Would be pleased to discuss the areas where you feel it falls down, PM if prefer.
I have read the policy paper you posted and agree that this will not happen as it might envoke some common sense... try lobbying EFRA directly??
Wouldn't waste your time , they're not listening .Thank you. Yes I am lobbying the members of the Defra ELMS engagement group. I actually received an email from Defra asking me not to, so on that basis I would encourage everyone on here who has views on what the SFI should look like to send them in, contact details on the attached.
Wouldn't waste your time , they're not listening .
How about all the grass land you can not cut..?You can leave grass ungrazed.. harvest the seed then bale the dry stalk.. put it through a pelleter..dry it and sell it as fuel... you dont have to use livestock.. its a choice... your choice
Is there a payment schedule ?Oh I don't know, having heard one of them having a hissy fit on the radio a couple of days ago about the ways in which ELMS is being amended in favour of farmers, I think they are certainly engaged with the process.
The thing Ag has to do - the only thing Ag has ever had to do with all of this - is to show them that making it work for farmers is their only hope of seeing environmental gains.
Don’t worry we will be blaming BoJo for decades and decades
Is there a payment schedule ?
How much for the individual elements , sorryEvery three months, starting 3 months after your contract starts.