http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/healthyeating/6932204/Oat-and-groats-Grain-power.htmlWhile in Gloucestershire yesterday i was reading about this on a small sign on the edge of a field,delivered to the farm and the farmer was telling me how Jordan's pay them to keep an edge of the land for wild flower and poppies etc.They also supply the wild flower seeds and advice on the best way to cultivate a certain piece of land.
Have seen a marked increase in wild flowers on the fields edge these last few years.
Got to say the countryside is looking stunning this year and i have noticed more birds of prey on my travels which is a sure sign of more small wildlife they feed on.
Our farmers do a great job with our landscape and it is good to see a company making a real effort to give a significant bit back to our countryside....it really looks a picture at present.
Make the most of it Leefer....the little strips and corners of fields which have been left uncultivated over the last 20 odd years, thus encouraging flowers and birds etc, only exist because the farmers were subsidised to leave them.
This government has introduced a voluntary scheme, so presumably your example is because of this. I suppose inevitably without the subsidy farmers will have to cultivate all their land.
