Langton Grove Farm: Environmental, Social and Economic issues associated with rural change
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- Langton Grove Farm, Suffolk: Environmental issues associated with rural change
- Background
- 223 hectare farm near Eye
- Grows sugar beet, winter wheat, winter barley and oilseed ****
- Yields are 10-20% above national average
- Good growing conditions
- Good land quality
- Climatic conditions are ideal for temparate arable crops
- Warm summers, long growing season and mean annual rainfall around 600mm a year
- Good growing conditions
- Yields are 10-20% above national average
- Set-aside
- 8% of arable area is set-aside (16 ha)
- 3/4 is planted with oilseed **** - possible because oilseed is used to make biodiesel fuel, not food production.
- 4 ha are left fallow
- Set-aside attracts an area payment of £175 per hectare
- 8% of arable area is set-aside (16 ha)
- CAP
- Limits on pesticide usage and spraying around the margins of fields
- Hedgerows must not be cut between 1st March and 31st July
- Protects nesting birds and other wildlife
- Must leave a 2m wide grass margin for wildlife around every field
- ES scheme
- Worth £30 per hectare
- Must leave field corners uncultivated
- Must leave 6m buffer strips around fields with streams and ditches
- Must sow wild bird seen onto the strips
- Clear ditches out only occasionally
- Diversification
- Opened the first childres' nursery in Eye in one of the outbuildings in 2006
- Immediately successful so new buildings were added
- Outdoor swimming pool
- Pets' corner
- Attracted funding from EU's Objective 5b programme which between 1994 and 1999 assisted economic development in areas like East Suffolk
- These areas were heavily dependant on declining employment sectors such as agriculture
- Rural development grant from DEFRA
- Immediately successful so new buildings were added
- Opened the first childres' nursery in Eye in one of the outbuildings in 2006
- Background
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