"Terryc" wrote in message
FarmI wrote:

********. Leaving wheat stubble is a good example of something that
wasn't done 40 years ago, so is allowing a long fallow between sowing
wheat crops, so is returning areas of farming to trees because it
actually increases productivity because of the protection it gives to
crops and animals.

Err, none of this is new thinking and I am talking about longer term.

40 years is the time frame you mentioned and that is a very short time span
but one in which those things that I mentioned were (and still are in some
quarters) considered to be "new thinking" in the farming community. Even
today if you read 'The Land' the sodding farmers organisations go on and on
about how government bans on land clearing are stuffing up farming.

I suspect that your memory is not serving you well.