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Upgrading biodiversity by 10%

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 31-Jan-25 12:20:09

So this is another thread to point out the misinformation being peddled by the DM etc.

Farmers are being encouraged through financial award to increase the biodiversity of their land by 10%.

So note this certainly does not mean the lose if 10% of land for agricultural use

What it will mean is that farmers will have to show that they have increased the biodiversity of such things as mixed hedge planting, boggy areas which are too expensive to be productively managed turned into small lakes or ponds, poor productive land to be set aside for wilding etc.

No productive agricultural land will be lost.

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grandMattie Fri 31-Jan-25 12:23:59

Most of the ministers and people in these jobs are complete towniesand have no intention of finding out what happens in the countryside. How can logical laws be passed?

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 31-Jan-25 12:26:36

Just to add that this was in fact a Tory initiative, and something that I supported.

Net+10%

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 31-Jan-25 12:27:13

Aren’t Tories the landowners of the uk?

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petra Fri 31-Jan-25 12:32:24

Meanwhile the EU have put through amendments to CAP.
This will cause untold damage to the environment.

www.pan-europe.info/blog/deathblow-legitimacy-cap

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Barleyfields Fri 31-Jan-25 12:39:02

grandMattie

Most of the ministers and people in these jobs are complete towniesand have no intention of finding out what happens in the countryside. How can logical laws be passed?

👏👏👏. Got it in one.

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Lathyrus3 Fri 31-Jan-25 12:52:45

Well farming is a business so they will do what benefits the business. If it’s more profitable to “wild” a field than plant and harvest a crop that’s what will happen.

Like set-aside in the days before Brexit.

So some will be land that was not food productive and some will be land that could have grown crops.

No business is going to risk loss when a profit is there for the taking.

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 31-Jan-25 12:54:25

It is popular with farmers

Of course it is.

It doesn’t take much imagination to work out why does it?

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Wyllow3 Fri 31-Jan-25 12:57:20

Farmer weekly reports how a relatively small farmer has made it work

www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/how-solar-panel-diversification-is-working-for-a-sheep-enterprise

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