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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