Michael Percy wrote in message
...
Gordon Couger wrote:

This is SO very reasonable, because he never made waterbudgets before
and
they are foreign to uk anyway and the data is not quite right and the
ag
researchers in uk are sleeeping and there is not much irrigate done
in
england and yadayadayadayada. Christ!


and if you are so smart, explain why we should pay for the cost of
setting up an irrigation system that isn't needed. A handful of
intensive vegetable growers on sand use irrigation, a handful of potato
growers. For the rest of us irrigation is impossible anyway because you
cannot get extraction licences.
For the vast majority of farmers in the UK it is impossible to irrigate,
it is actually illegal to irrigate because they cannot get a licence to
get the water.
It doesn't matter. Most of us spend more time worrying about field
drains than irrigation.


--
Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'


Mike