Fenland farmland
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Fenland farmland by Hugh Venables as part of the Geograph project.
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Fenland farmland
Image: © Hugh Venables Taken: 11 Jan 2009
This is probably the best arable farmland in the country and there is a shortage of food and biomass (this is the first year for many years without set-aside, where farmers are paid not to grow crops to avoid oversupply across the European Union). However there is still a market for leaving maize cover crops unharvested (back left, with blue hopper for supplementary grain feeding) for rearing game birds. People then pay the farmer for the right to shoot the pheasants or partridges.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.427543
Longitude
0.186318