rollingthunder
Well-known member
To the ‘Fury of local Farmers’ - says the Times:eek!:
Wot wood the Sun say? 6 Eagles let loose on big lump of Chalk:-O
The farming community pride themselves on their 50’s approach to husbanding the landscape - a sort of pre-EU but with the subsidies.....it will be interesting to see how that pans out post Halloween
Agriculture is 1.5% of the Island economy.
Sheep account for about 1/3 of that so possibly about 0.5%.
Cattle/Dairy farming although widespread is at an historic low of about 24 farms from 150 not so many decades ago...
The Farming community embrace the conservation measures they take with regard to the Glanville Fritillary, Chalk grassland Orchids and control of Bovine TB without resorting to culling Brock.
What is the problem with Sea Eagles? They are not seen carrying either Lambs or small children anywhere else in the UK? Maybe these farmers are growing set-aside ‘weed’ and have taken to sampling when they are erratically driving those subsidised tractors c/w Red Diesel? No other lobby punches more above their weight than farmers. Few, very few, actually undertake wildlife-friendly mananagement regimes without a big fat taxpayers carrot at the end of it!
We, the great unwashed ‘townies’, actually pay for this and are told in no uncertain terms (when genuinely lost honest) to ‘Get orff myy laaand’.
I like to think that, like Mull and elsewhere, they will embrace the tourist aspect of the re-introduction scheme and as soon as birders etc start to book into future B+B facilities that the more entreprenurial will be planning all will be well now there are both Sheep and Grockles to be fleeced
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-49433490
Good Birding -
Laurie -
Wot wood the Sun say? 6 Eagles let loose on big lump of Chalk:-O
The farming community pride themselves on their 50’s approach to husbanding the landscape - a sort of pre-EU but with the subsidies.....it will be interesting to see how that pans out post Halloween
Agriculture is 1.5% of the Island economy.
Sheep account for about 1/3 of that so possibly about 0.5%.
Cattle/Dairy farming although widespread is at an historic low of about 24 farms from 150 not so many decades ago...
The Farming community embrace the conservation measures they take with regard to the Glanville Fritillary, Chalk grassland Orchids and control of Bovine TB without resorting to culling Brock.
What is the problem with Sea Eagles? They are not seen carrying either Lambs or small children anywhere else in the UK? Maybe these farmers are growing set-aside ‘weed’ and have taken to sampling when they are erratically driving those subsidised tractors c/w Red Diesel? No other lobby punches more above their weight than farmers. Few, very few, actually undertake wildlife-friendly mananagement regimes without a big fat taxpayers carrot at the end of it!
We, the great unwashed ‘townies’, actually pay for this and are told in no uncertain terms (when genuinely lost honest
) to ‘Get orff myy laaand’.I like to think that, like Mull and elsewhere, they will embrace the tourist aspect of the re-introduction scheme and as soon as birders etc start to book into future B+B facilities that the more entreprenurial will be planning all will be well now there are both Sheep and Grockles to be fleeced
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-49433490
Good Birding -
Laurie -
