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<blockquote data-quote="BobTheSmallholder" data-source="post: 5916792" data-attributes="member: 80636"><p>I'm not convinced that this particular project is a good thing due to the flaws already pointed out - funded by subs - totally "manufactured" wilderness etc.</p><p></p><p>I am however a huge fan of bringing some wilderness back onto farming landscapes in the form of wildlife strips, ripariums (sp?) and strategically placed hedgerows/treelines etc. There is a lot of evidence that wildlife need all of these to be connected in order to thrive, so if every farmer along the length of a watercourse left a 6m wild strip each side that ran for many many miles and hedgerows and other areas connected to it then it would massively increase diversity without having to deny a huge plot of farmable land.</p><p></p><p>There is a lot of talk on TFF about farmers that insist on trying to make every last acre pay and so they spend silly amounts of time, money, diesel etc on attempting to crop land that would be better off being left to run wild and so increase the diversity of species in and around the farm with obvious benefits. Surely it's better to only farm 80% of your land if you actually turn a profit on it then try to make the last 20% productive and lose money on it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BobTheSmallholder, post: 5916792, member: 80636"] I'm not convinced that this particular project is a good thing due to the flaws already pointed out - funded by subs - totally "manufactured" wilderness etc. I am however a huge fan of bringing some wilderness back onto farming landscapes in the form of wildlife strips, ripariums (sp?) and strategically placed hedgerows/treelines etc. There is a lot of evidence that wildlife need all of these to be connected in order to thrive, so if every farmer along the length of a watercourse left a 6m wild strip each side that ran for many many miles and hedgerows and other areas connected to it then it would massively increase diversity without having to deny a huge plot of farmable land. There is a lot of talk on TFF about farmers that insist on trying to make every last acre pay and so they spend silly amounts of time, money, diesel etc on attempting to crop land that would be better off being left to run wild and so increase the diversity of species in and around the farm with obvious benefits. Surely it's better to only farm 80% of your land if you actually turn a profit on it then try to make the last 20% productive and lose money on it? [/QUOTE]
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