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Topic ID 2744
03/05/2007 by furrybunny
Tree Planting B158
I am very curious, well nosey! when leaving Bengeo on the B158 in a field on your righthand side, just before you come to Crouchfields, there is a field that has over the years seemed to be exploratory drilled, looks like huge mole hills, and now saplings have been planted in deep rows. Can anyone throw any light on this, is it to do with the gravel pits, which still on hold? or is it very innocent farmer doing his bit for his carbon footprint!
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Reply ID 39515
03/05/2007 by Andrew
I noticed this yesterday, as well, many farmers are planting small beltrs of woodland in set aside fileds, I guess there are grants for this?
Reply ID 39517
03/05/2007 by arkwright
Have you noticed the Lamas close to the new trees, in the fields closer to Bengeo?
Reply ID 39526
03/05/2007 by codek2
yup, farmers now in some cases get paid more for not growing crops than they do for growing them.
certainly there are also eu subsidies if they leave a strip of "wild" area around the edges of their fields... You can also get paid for planting new hedgerows...
Reply ID 39539
03/05/2007 by furrybunny
well that's not a bad thing, remember when they ripped up the hedgerows in the 60's and 70's to make bigger fields, hundred of years of hedges/wildlife were gone over night!
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