The Environment.....

[7610 super q]

What exactly is Mr Gove going to be paying us for ?
Planting trees ?
Wildlife habitat ?
Re wilding ?
Organic farming ?
Chasing butterflies ?
Encouraging nettles ?
Being pleasant to ramblers ?
Talking nicely to squirrels ? (only red ones, mind )

All a bit vague so far isn't it ?

 

[Still Farming]

Pay you to keep "paper shovellers" in jobs ?

 

[FonterraFarmer]

What exactly is Mr Gove going to be paying us for ?
Planting trees ?
Wildlife habitat ?
Re wilding ?
Organic farming ?
Chasing butterflies ?
Encouraging nettles ?
Being pleasant to ramblers ?
Talking nicely to squirrels ? (only red ones, mind )

All a bit vague so far isn't it ?

Probably 100 percent more than here!!!

 

[Sussex Martin]

What exactly is Mr Gove going to be paying us for ?
Planting trees ?
Wildlife habitat ?
Re wilding ?
Organic farming ?
Chasing butterflies ?
Encouraging nettles ?
Being pleasant to ramblers ?
Talking nicely to squirrels ? (only red ones, mind )

All a bit vague so far isn't it ?

Vague for a reason I recon as he has come up with a few ideas that need to be discussed by more than just him and a couple of aids. Speculative threads will only make you worry even more once the usual suspects arrive on the scene.

 

[roscoe erf]

What exactly is Mr Gove going to be paying us for ?
Planting trees ?
Wildlife habitat ?
Re wilding ?
Organic farming ?
Chasing butterflies ?
Encouraging nettles ?
Being pleasant to ramblers ?
Talking nicely to squirrels ? (only red ones, mind )

All a bit vague so far isn't it ?

bored are we get out more you should

 

[Shovelhands]

What exactly is Mr Gove going to be paying us for ?
Planting trees ?
Wildlife habitat ?
Re wilding ?
Organic farming ?
Chasing butterflies ?
Encouraging nettles ?
Being pleasant to ramblers ?
Talking nicely to squirrels ? (only red ones, mind )

All a bit vague so far isn't it ?

Don’t forget about caring for woodworm.......

 

[DRC]

I bet it'll involve another re mapping exercise, and maybe a new computer system costing millions, and definitely more inspections.

 

[betweenthelines]

The thing to remember when anyone talks about "the environment" is that it is and always has been constantly changing.

For example, in historic terms hedges are relatively new, lots of woodland was planted after the Napoleonic wars when farming went into a slump, vast swaths of countryside was derelict in the 30's etc.etc.

So, do people want to preserve the countryside as it is now? Or how it was at some point in the past? Or just how they think it should be?

 

[Old Boar]

If you type "English countryside" into google and click images, that is what most people think of as the country - thatch cottages, wild flowers, rolling hills...
Maybe there will be a grant to start up a smock workshop and another grant to pay us to lean on gates, wearing said smock, chewing a bit of grass....

The last thing the countryside seems to be is a factory floor to produce food. The connection between sheep in fields and a lamb chop in the supermarket has long gone.

 

[Sid]

Please please please
No more payments that feck up markets. Such as organic conversion payments.

 

[Kevtherev]

76 gets paid to rear beavers

 

[richard hammond]

What exactly is Mr Gove going to be paying us for ?
Planting trees ?
Wildlife habitat ?
Re wilding ?
Organic farming ?
Chasing butterflies ?
Encouraging nettles ?
Being pleasant to ramblers ?
Talking nicely to squirrels ? (only red ones, mind )

All a bit vague so far isn't it ?

None of this will matter after a while as every body will have starved, not long ago we would need to feed a doubled population on less land by 2050 !!

 

[Sid]

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76 gets paid to rear beavers

Feeding beavers......in a town near you ever saturday night!

 

[7610 super q]

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76 gets paid to rear beavers

 

[Fish]

Please please please
No more payments that feck up markets. Such as organic conversion payments.

Come on, that's what politicians do,
feck stuff up.

 

[Fossil]

It’s really not difficult to predict. Take a flick through an HLS els or css handbook, with some tweaks to keep with the latest trends. If you are arable add some grass ley options and no till options to the old wild bird seed, pollen mix, margins and corners and I doubt you will be a million miles away. If you are grass there will no doubt be some low input options, herb rich award options etc etc. Add some capital grants for precision farming.

 

[Sid]

Taking to someone yesterday who was paid £450/ year not to plough over historic ruins. 10 years £4500. No longer in a scheme can now plough over it.
What a waste of taxpayers money

 

[Campani]

Taking to someone yesterday who was paid £450/ year not to plough over historic ruins. 10 years £4500. No longer in a scheme can now plough over it.
What a waste of taxpayers money

Are you suggesting more protected areas and the regulation that comes with it. Would be a better use of taxpayers money? Because landowners can't be trusted to look after heritage unless they are being paid money or forced not to by regulation.
Personally I would hope enough landowners, would be able to work in a way that doesn't destroy our history. Maybe grazing, or mintill.

 

[Sid]

Are you suggesting more protected areas and the regulation that comes with it. Would be a better use of taxpayers money? Because landowners can't be trusted to look after heritage unless they are being paid money or forced not to by regulation.
Personally I would hope enough landowners, would be able to work in a way that doesn't destroy our history. Maybe grazing, or mintill.

No i am not.
The area used to be cultivated. It was then of financial benefits not to and now it has changed again. Was it a good spend to stop cultivations for 10 years only for them to be started again now with no restrictions?

Everything is history but where do you draw the line. Vast majority of old barns in Devon have been converted. When do you stop this to preserve the ones remaining?

 

[Yale]

Feeding beavers......in a town near you ever saturday night!

First the Brazilian,then rewilding of the Beaver,how fashions change.