MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED BY MR NICK BRADLEY
(F 46)
With reference to your letter of 27 June, I
write to let you have basic details of my experience of Organic
Farming.
I am primarily an Arable farmer with 380 hectares,
and also a 15,500 bird poultry enterprise.
In 1999, I entered 22 hectares into the Organic
Farming Scheme, most of which was the free range pasture needed
for the poultry, the remainder being arable land intended purely
as a pilot operation.
I recently withdrew the free range area from
the scheme as a result of confusion over standards and concerns
over being able to finance the conversion period, which is apparently
commercially unviable. I recently received the first grant payment
for the arable field left in the scheme.
I am currently working with the Lincolnshire
Organic Producers (The MAFF funded consultancy and marketing company
in Lincoln) to convert 40 ha of arable and 30 ha of rough pasture
into an integrated organic enterprise with beef cattle.
I am a member of the Organic Farmers and Growers.
28 June 2000
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