Farming and The Environment - Royal Show?
My school took us out to The Royal Show, and asked us to bizzarely do some homework on it !?
I cannot find out the answers, so I thought I might want to see if any of the Yahoo! Answers people would like to be very kind and help me!
This probably would be better if you had visited the Royal Show before, or the Roal Show this year [2008]. But even if you haven’t these questions shouldn’t be too hard for people who know about general farming.
Ok, so here goes :-
1. Can farmers and growers make a profit whilst caring for the countryside, it’s widlife and plants?
2. What is meant by sustainable systems and environmentally friendly farming?
3. How has the farming industry responded to environmental concerns?
Can farmers make a buck and still look after teh environmental needs of the land?
They probably can not make much money if they do not preserve the land, but they may forgo looking after vermin species that are in danger, if they alone have to carry the cost.
In the EU they can likely make out better than in much of the rest of the world.
Sustainable systems of agriculture often is a euphemism for methods of framing that do not require inputs from off the farm, since it is assumed that if you have to bring it in, it may run out. By contrast, environmentally friendly farming would have as an objective farming in a way that does no harm either to the land or to creatures that depend on it, nor to those that consume the products of that farming.
Farming has for centuries been moving to better land stewardship. But environmentalists have been coming forward with new concerns so fast that some farmers are responding by retiring, withdrawing land from production, converting farm land to golf courses, planting trees instead of producing food.
While others have been so pressed economically that they have just ignored demands and gone on farming as always.
Farmers have been forced to use less of many chemical aids, and be licensed to use them, and in the main they have complied.
Farmers who’sland for centuries has been used for animal husbandry have found it impractical to continue that with concerns about animal waste product management. That mostly means those operations have moved further from where people live, closer to where animal food comes from.
Farmers have converted to making methane as fuel to use up animal waste, and in so doing they will lose the condition of their soil, but at least current concerns are being addressed.
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Hi , farmers not good at typing , so short answer only !
1.-only with help of grants(stewardship schemes)
2.-sus systems - surely speaks for itself.
2.-e.f.f. - extremely fashionable farming (!!!!!!!!)
3.-by applying for grants
Hope you get to go somewhere more interesting next time.-agricutural shows are just for farmers to meet up and gossip.