Environmental schemes damaging upland farming - TFA
Tuesday 20 October 2009
THE Tenant Farmers Association has hit out at Natural England’s ‘misguided’ policy of ‘drastically reducing’ uplands stocking densities through Environmental Stewardship Schemes.
Under the Higher Level Stewardship Scheme, stocking densities in some upland areas could fall by as much as 75 per cent, according to the TFA.
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