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Jane Howard’s Fables from the Farm It’s calving time and while Jane is up in the night with deliveries, she’s thinking about the global picture C alving starts in earnest early in <strong>February</strong> and for about six weeks it will be full on. Late nights, eventful deliveries and hopefully a shed full of new arrivals at the end of it, but despite all the excitement, with all the changes afoot in the world these young cattle will be arriving into a far from certain world for a beef cow. As well as all the uncertainty caused by the subject beginning with the letter B that everyone is heartily sick of hearing about (Brexit – I promise I won’t mention it again!), the other issue affecting livestock farmers will be the growing belief that if you want to save the world and reduce climate change you need to stop eating meat. Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to well over three million today. It is a fact that ruminants are poor converters of grain to meat and the intensive and inefficient use of large quantities of cereals – often grown in what was once the Amazon rainforest – is doing great harm to the environment and is not sustainable for the globe. But it doesn’t have to be such a black and white issue as meat – or no meat. For years now I have been saying to anyone who will listen that we should all eat less meat, avoid cheap meat and seek out grass-fed meat. And calls for us to switch our diet entirely to plant-based foods also ignore one of the greatest Britain grows the best grass in the world “It doesn’t have to be such a black and white issue as meat – or no meat” tools we have to mitigate climate change – grassland. Thanks to our rainfall, soil and landscape, Great Britain grows the best grass in the world. Today about two-thirds of our farmland is covered by grass, grazed by sheep and cattle. Switch to 100% plant-based agriculture and we would have to plough up this grassland and replace it with crops that need high inputs of fertiliser, fungicides, pesticides and herbicides. This would also do great harm to the environment and is not sustainable. There is as much carbon in the world’s soils as there is in all the biomass, forestry, atmosphere and surface of the oceans combined. In the UK most of this carbon is held as organic matter in the soil of permanent pasture. If you plough up this soil it will lose at least half its organic matter straight away and more and more as each year passes. Letting arable land lie fallow and returning it to periods of grazed pasture, as farmers used to before artificial fertilisers made continuous cropping possible, is the only way to reverse the process and restore its organic matter which is in effect nature’s own method of carbon capture. So livestock, grazed on permanent pasture and convalescing arable land can actually contribute to reducing carbon emissions – and just maybe those new calves now arriving in the shed may be part of the answer and not part of the problem. Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm wealdentimes.co.uk 140
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