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Environmental effects of Farming

Snowfire · 2019-08-13 14:28:23

As if our British market hadn’t enough going on... https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/12/goldsmiths-bans-beef-from-university-cafes-to-tackle-climate-crisis Off-topic posts moved to their own thread.

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#152 12-12-2019 7:34pm
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wrangler wrote: »

Part timers would be more feeding at night/morning in the dark, more convenient to have them in.
they'd have to have silage ground that they'd get slurry onto

Alot of people in the West would be buying silage(not all of course but West of me a lot would) . I think giving grants for slats encouraged people to hold more cattle over the winter than they usually would have been able to. It doesn't pay in those situations financially or environmentally

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