The issue of the day is the Tenant Farmers Association and rewilding projects.
To take farmland out of agricultural use because it is second grade and say it has to be used for “environmental regeneration” is a highly debatable topic.
The way we farm at the Good Gardeners is a totally environmentally friendly way of farming and we claim more environmentally friendly than any other farming system.
We don’t use any chemicals or pesticides whatsoever. This means that we are creating 100% healthy soil. This 100% healthy soil was not here before we arrived on our farm and therefore, as we protect all kinds of animals, we are improving not only the soil but the habitats for all kinds of both wildlife and pollinators. We are installing Bee Hives also that weren’t here before, bird boxes, homes for the varieties of wild bees etc., etc., Therefore we are more environmentally friendly than “rewilding projects” up and down the Country.
Because we don’t use any chemicals whatsoever including pesticides we are more environmentally friendly than the Soil Association and it’s policies on allowing the use of 5 “ORGANIC CHEMICALS” We use none of these including Copper Sulphate….who would want that on their dinner plate?
Neonicotinoids
The last Government saw it fit to allow these seriously harmful chemicals to be used on Sugar Beet. If farmers want to know how to grow Sugar Beet without these harmful chemicals write to us…
From the Tenant Farmers Association
2.2. TFA Cymru also accepts and appreciates the huge financial challenges under
which the Welsh Government is having to operate. However, the entire rural
affairs budget in Wales last year was some £482 million which represents just
2% of the overall Welsh budget. Bearing in mind that this is targeted at nearly
90% of the land area of Wales, producing food, fibre, landscape, biodiversity,
and carbon services, pound for pound, this is excellent value for money.
THIS WOULD SEEM RELEVANT TO NOT ONLY TENANT FARMERS BUT TO LAND OWNER FARMERS TOO (esp, in Wales)
5.16 TFA Cymru is grateful to the Welsh Government for responding positively to
the point made previously by TFA Cymru in respect of the proposed rule that
all farmers should have 10% of their land under trees. We welcome the
exclusion of tenanted land from this rule. However, we would also question
more widely how applicable it is to use this 10% tree cover as a basic rule
within the scheme architecture for non-tenanted land. TFA Cymru holds that
it would sit better as an optional element rather than one which applies
universally.
REWILDING The UK’s plan for 400 Million trees to be planted should in no way be on prime Agricultural land but rather on steep hill
The issue of the day is the Tenant Farmers Association and rewilding projects. To take farmland out of agricultural use because it is second grade
