Article: Decision to set aside outdated scheme is welcomed

Article: Farmers 'resent' set-aside scheme
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  February 17, 2009 ;     653 words ... ... The compulsory reintroduction of a set-aside scheme - whereby farmland is allowed to ... retain the environmental benefits set aside now that it was coming to an ... resources. As the situation stands, set-aside across the European Union ...

Article: Green projects at risk after set-aside ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  October 2, 2007 ;     482 words ... ... Cotswolds may suffer as Europe mothballs the set-aside scheme, land agents are warning. The EU introduced a zero set-aside rate for 2008 last week in an attempt ... many farmers had already started to plough set-aside land in anticipation of the zero ...

Article: Compulsory set-aside scheme will not work, ...
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  February 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... provide the same benefits to wildlife as set-aside won't work and may have a negative ... He said: I don't want to go back to set-aside as it was, but I do want to find ... problem. But Mr Kendall said that making set-aside measures a condition of farmers ...

Article: Finding correct replacement for set-aside ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  January 28, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... The bar for the Entry Level option is set too low, with the result that it achieves ... if anything, should take the place of set-aside, which was initially suspended in 2007 and has since been scrapped altogether. Set-aside was, of course, a supply management ...

Article: Wildlife will not suffer as set-aside scheme ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  September 4, 2007 ;     464 words ... ... productive agriculture rather than relying on set-aside, farmers' leaders have declared ... the Protection of Birds that scrapping of set- aside could halt the recovery in some ... of the 363,000 hectares of compulsory set-aside in England is classified as being ...

Article: Plant species in arable fields increase by a third as make-up of ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  November 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... often as a result of the set-aside scheme. The findings are among a ... land left fallow under the set-aside scheme was often associated with the ... warned that the demise of the set-aside scheme this year could beasignificant ...

Article: Set-aside should be set aside, says Europe; ...
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  September 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Lognonne THE European Union's set-aside scheme, whereby 10% of farmers' land ... We welcome the announcement on set-aside as it gives farmers and ... right to completely scrap the set-aside scheme, which has existed since 1992 ...