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Friday, 27 June 2008 16:48 |
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On Saturday 21st June several members of Transition Caradon and Liskeard braved the wet misty weather to visit Trerieve Organic Farm to hear first hand from Jim Candy about how he is reacting to increasing energy costs and the effects of climate change.“Higher diesel prices are causing problems on organic farms, as a lot of weed control relies on frequent cultivations, either to create stale seedbeds or inter-row weeding, or topping weeds on grassland. However the depletion of fossil fuels is having a bigger impact on conventional farmers, who are seeing huge increases in the cost of artificial fertilizers and sprays. I believe agriculture will have to become less reliant on chemical inputs, and people will have to use local produce if we are going to conserve oil stocks for essential priorities,” he said. Klaudia van Gool, who helps organise Transition Caradon meetings, said “ It was great to see how Jim collects rainwater to provide drinking water for the cattle, saving the energy embedded in mains supplies, and manages his farm yard manure by composting to enable maximum uptake of the nutrients for his crops. This visit gave us the chance to look at how agriculture must adapt in future, but more importantly allowed us to look at practical answers to these challenging problems.” The event was covered by the Western Morning News. Our press release (above), which was taken up by the Cornish Guardian this week.
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