Crops, UK National Park Authorities and global warming

It seems that all crops are not equal in the eyes of UK National Park Authorities, at least judging from the National Park Authority local to me.

It was with sadness that I noticed in my local newspaper that my local National Park Authority had refused permission for a farmer to grow elephant grass as a biofuel crop. Reasons given included the need for caution, more time to create a detailed control policy and, apparently, elephant grass was not very nice to look at anyway and not in keeping with the traditional local countryside.

Indeed, I was quite surprised that anybody could tell a farmer what he could or could not grow.

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Bye for now

Rob

(Rob Hopcott - online writer who believes, if it grows and it's green, it's not half bad!)