I once visited a farm near Broadway that had never used artificial fertiliser. The story was that ‘Dad’ had been sold some of what was called ‘artificial’ early in the fifties, as part of the post war agricultural changes optimistically called improvements. The use of artificial nitrogen ‘improved’ our wildflower meadows so effectively that they almost all vanished, to then be called ‘improved grassland’. These kinds of improvements ultimately led to the UK losing more biodiversity than any other European country.
The Elephant on the Farm
The Elephant on the Farm
The Elephant on the Farm
I once visited a farm near Broadway that had never used artificial fertiliser. The story was that ‘Dad’ had been sold some of what was called ‘artificial’ early in the fifties, as part of the post war agricultural changes optimistically called improvements. The use of artificial nitrogen ‘improved’ our wildflower meadows so effectively that they almost all vanished, to then be called ‘improved grassland’. These kinds of improvements ultimately led to the UK losing more biodiversity than any other European country.