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Crop Diversification | Crop diversification, is triggered where 'arable land' is more than 10 ha.

Some land is only suitable for livestock, which can also fertilise arable areas that would otherwise be soon exhausted.

A SURVEY of farms in north Gwynedd and Llyn found a range of rare and important arable weeds.

Farmers and landowners are being urged to save rare arable plants following the loss of many distinctive flowers.

Following discussion in the Council of Ministers' Special Committee on Agriculture on December 1, Member States' delegates reached a qualified majority in support of the Commission's proposal to halve set-aside requirements on arable land (COM(2003) 691).

Arable farmers fear that crops will rot in saturated ground following heavy rain and snow showers.

Several hundred acres of Scotland's top arable land have been put on the market with a price tag of almost PS4 million.

Mr Mangope said livestock farmers were not fully catered for by government as compared to arable farmers who were wholly subsidised through the Integrated Support Programme for Arable Agriculture Development (ISPAAD).

TO satisfy the conditions for Basic Payments under the reformed Common Agricultural Policy, a farmer in England has to be "multi-cultural" if he farms more than 10 hectares of arable land and "green" if he farms more than 15.

This year, RSPB Cymru's stand is focusing on the wildlife of arable habitats and we've bought a cross section through an arable field ideally managed for wildlife, to display.

ARABLE farmer Peter Kendall has been voted the new president of the National Farmers' Union.

Arable plants that used to be far more widespread among fields of crops represent one fifth of the wild plants now targeted for conservation in the UK.

Sarah-Jane Baldwin, Wynnstay arable and sales specialist for Cheshire, north Shropshire and north Staffordshire, presented the Wynnstay Group Trophy to Harry Fletcher, for being the best student on the college's Level 3 Extended Diploma in Agriculture (Arable Group).