'Why not start now?' On the track to regenerative farming

17.09.2021

The coming revolution in subsidies is driving interest that could help the climate and biodiversity"My farming friends think I'm nuts - I can't remember when that hedge was cut last," says Richard Thomas. Cutting is usually an annual event, but the bushy, 3-metre-wide hedgerow is now home to yellowhammers, his favourite birds.Thomas has laid about a kilometre of hedgerows in the past few years on his 250-hectare (617-acre) cattle and sheep farm in Herefordshire, where his family have farmed since 1893. But he would like to do more and hopes the fast-approaching revolution in the government's use of the ?3bn a year in farming subsidies is going to help. Continue reading...

Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/17/why-not-start-now-on-the-track-to-regenerative-farming

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