Cap 2013

techtom

A quote from Mairead mcguinness on the permanent pasture aspect of greening.

"On permanent pasture, the aim will be to protect high value pastures"

Any idea what would be classified as hi value pasture ?

leg wax

techtom wrote: »

On permanent pasture, the aim will be to protect high value pastures.

Any idea what is above

mf240

My cats breath smells like cat food.

just do it

Good road frontage?;)

yellow50HX

techtom wrote: »

A quote from Mairead mcguinness on the permanent pasture aspect of greening.

"On permanent pasture, the aim will be to protect high value pastures"

Any idea what would be classified as hi value pasture ?

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techtom

just do it wrote: »

Good road frontage?;)

Tknks

tabby aspreme

I suppose if greening and pasture are in the same sentence it must be high clover content long term leys that support loads of insects , weeds , and a are not cut till late July , none of yer fancy eyetalian ryegrass, just fescue and cocksfoot

paddysdream

Meaningless soundbite from an id**t politician.

Afaik anyone with 90% (?) of their land in permanent pasture will satisfy the greening criteria without any other obligations.Permanent pasture,according to our overlords in Brussels,I think,is land in grass for the previous 5 years ie no tillage in between.

Presume the idea of this is aimed more at continental europe to prevent monoculture ie,vast vistas of continious wheat,barley etc.

The high value bit?Depending on the year that could be that auld bit of wet boggy scrub in north Sligo thats lepping out of it this year but was too wet for snipe in 2012 or dry land here in Carlow thats gone yellow at the mo. but really flew it last summer(had to close up extra fields for silage/hay in 2012 as grass was getting ahead of stock.

On a more serious note think that the aforementioned greening will affect very very few in this country,only those with tillage only farms where all internal ditches etc. have been removed

red bull

After 2 very wet years and 3 hot weeks what do you expect next??????????????? greening