Hello,
The annual RSPB Telegraph Nature of Farming Award is open for applications until the end of this month. If you have any farmers locally who are doing their bit for wildlife, why not encourage them to enter? This year we've launched a new 'Highly Commended' category so even more farmers entering the competition can be rewarded for their efforts.
Information on the Award, last year's winners and an application form can be found at
or email nature-farming@rspb.org.uk for a postal form. Claire
Sorry you feel this way corni, and its clear you have only met farmers who are stuck in their ways, but please, this post is for recognising the ones that have responded, you are entitled to your views and nobody is telling you any different, but why not put them on a new post instead of detracting from what this post was meant for.
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Got to agree with Mpiekp that you are disrupting the thread as it wasn't a debate Corni and although you are entitled to your opinion it really should not be placed here.As said ,this is about farmers that deserve recognition and if you want to start a thread on" wild-life unfriendly farmers" then as M says do so.
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Hi corni
Sorry but I have to agree with mpiekp and Sheena as well and say that this thread has been posted by Claire T specifically for rewarding wildlife friendly farmers, not for knocking those who aren't.
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Please accept my sincere apologies. i'm pretty new to the forum & misunderstood. didn't mean to detract from the thread.
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Well done Corni so pleased you apologised but unfortunately you have met a proportion of farmers not representative of most.Must try and answer your wrong assumtions.It is almost impossible for farmers to pollute except when a bad case of accidental pollution say when a wall breaks on slurry pit we work very closely with water authoritys.Most of the drums would be from fly tippers a big problem for farmers we dispose generally of our drums responsibly.It is very difficult when ploughing a field to leave a footpath we should after sowing cut a path through the crop but usually in practice hope that the walkers make a path through the crop but do not forget it is really a privilige to use these footpaths and I would suggest householders would not want people walking through there property.