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Pastoral plan to save Stonehenge Wiltshire

Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 01 April 2005  Page Views: 2623

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The biggest experiment in Britain on reverting intensive arable agriculture to traditional low-density pasture is quietly going ahead in the Stonehenge area, reports Maev Kennedy in The Guardian.

A unique funding package recognises the extraordinary importance of the World Heritage Site. On top of the stewardship payments available elsewhere, farmers at Stonehenge get extra, which takes the grant up to £450 a hectare compared with the £250 profit a hectare Mr Turner could make for growing wheat on the same land.

The fields are sown with native grass seed harvested from the army ranges on Salisbury Plain, which, give or take the odd tank track and shell crater, preserve a landscape which vanished in the rest of the area after the second world war.

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Re: Pastoral plan to save Stonehenge by Andy B on Friday, 01 April 2005
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Good one but how sad we can't bring back all the barrows and other sites obliterated in the last 50 years of farm subsidies for over-production. One for Ms Jowell's VR team I think!
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