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Paying to find non-GE wild corn?
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:06:14 +0100, "Jim Webster"
wrote: "Moosh:]" wrote in message Not in the UK. Typically the value of small (say 1000T) of standing timber is approximately zero. Most places the highest value sale is for firewood. How about fruit, nuts? Barely viable for specialist producers, you have to have the right climate (which we don't except for damsons) and cheap labour for picking Fair enough. I believe it was just a suggestion. You could plant several types of trees, each working better in slightly different conditions. Trees are not rates for moisture loss. Best we have in Australia. Diversity is much better against troubles. Sometimes it is, sometimes not. If all your crop comes in at top price, but you know about eggs in baskets. The farmers who have survived here have been the ones who diversify. In jims case alternatives to grass are problematic. Fair enough. it was just a suggestion that has probably been thought of many times, and rejected. You can have the diversity within each farm, or else you use the govt to buffer against loss as with BSE, or both. Govt hates to pay farmers anything. They paid for bse primarily for public health reasons. Don't they pay you guys for NOT growing crops, like in the US and Europe? I hate to think who will bear the brunt of troubles with the huge GM reduced diversity scheme. Que? My comment to a tee. Que? Si! not in the UK, planting trees is a waste of time and is not economically viable unless you have an awful lot of land.Plant trees here and you would drive people off the land Absolutely. I doubt they would grow very well given your location anyway. If the wind didn't get them, the salt would. Abolutely NO tree crop able to be considered? not really, firstly we haven't the room, only 150 acres secondly the margin is too small on all of them, I cannot afford to sit and wait 15- 20 years before I see any income at all. thirdly the timber market in the UK is on the floor, fruit is imported from countries with better weather and cheap labour Yep, you (UK) are so close to cheap producers, I guess, where we are so far away from anything (except the tropics |
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