Showing posts with label is this the future of our farms?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label is this the future of our farms?. Show all posts

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Biofuels, plastics and drugs: is this the future of our farms?


Farmer Rob Pickering last week planted nine hectares of flood-prone land in Lincolnshire with an African plant called miscanthus, or elephant grass. By selling the fast-growing crop as biofuel for Drax power station, he should earn as much as he would from selling wheat on the world market. Picke...

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