No dig: the farmers are catching on

[marchogaeth]

As this map shows http://www.thedairysite.com/articles...september-2008 livestock are not evenly distributed through the UK which means lots of arable crops are grown with no animal manure input at all - all artificials. I have tried to find a map showing earthworm densities across the UK but failed. I know that 30 odd years ago there were fields in East Anglia where "no" earthworms could be found.

My abiding memory is watching fields in the Fenns burning weeks after straw burning because they had had such intense fires that the peat was on fire.

[Rob the Radish]

As this map shows http://www.thedairysite.com/articles...september-2008 livestock are not evenly distributed through the UK which means lots of arable crops are grown with no animal manure input at all - all artificials. I have tried to find a map showing earthworm densities across the UK but failed. I know that 30 odd years ago there were fields in East Anglia where "no" earthworms
My abiding memory is watching fields in the Fenns burning weeks after straw burning because they had had such intense fires that the peat was on fire.

Not all artificials now, the cost is too prohibitive, hence human waste is used more widely, at £10 per ton as opposed to £120 for artificial.........

[Rob the Radish]

They burned not just the stubble, but any ground nesting chicks too, plus anything else eg beneficial insects, that couldn't get away

Quite right, as my next line went onto say, and rabbits, hares, leverets, not to mention all the hedges that got destroyed with all its inhabitants.

I am sad to say that I was the one with the matches for a good few years, we did not know any better at the time, business can be a terrible thing, its about making money/ways of life rather than what was best for our surroundings.

[Feral007]

Rob the Radish, so nice to see someone recognising when things aren't in best interest. It's the denial that irks me.