1. Farms For Schools Henry Aubrey-Fletcher www.cla.org.uk
Wednesday, December 05, 2018Wednesday, December 05, 2018
Farms For Schools
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Thank you for invitation
Chatsworth, sustainable, stewardship
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Henry Aubrey-Fletcher
Deputy President
Country Land & Business Association

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Henry Aubrey-Fletcher
Deputy President
Country Land & Business Association

4. Who are we - what do we do? 40,000 members.
Land managers & rural businesses.
60% of rural land.
Lobbying and advice.
52% less than 100 acres.
84% under 500 acres.
Only 9% over 500 acres.
Professionals.
100 years
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The CLA is a membership organisation represents app. 40,000 members mostly land managers and rural businesses who between them are responsible for about 60% of the rural land area in England and Wales.
As well as private owners many NGOs, such as the NT, and LAs are members, also professionals working in land management & the rural economy.
We are non political & we lobby governments here and in Europe on behalf of our members - we also provide them with free professional advice.
Now for those of you who think the CLA is an organisation that only represents large landowners, I am afraid I am going to have to disappoint you.
52% of our members own or manage less than 100 acres, 84% under 500 acres and only 9% more than 500 acres. The remainder are professional members and limited land rural businesses. This year we will be 100 years old.

5. www.cla.org.uk Slide5 Centenary Conference QEII Centre Westminster
Launch Rural Buildings Award Scheme
Photographic Competition
Working with FACE
Just Ask campaign launched by PM

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Well all this is pretty obvious you might think but lets have a look at some recent surveys and the questions primary school children are asked about where their food comes from

10. Where does food come from?
30% - oranges grow in Britain.
50% - margarine comes from cows.
25% - bread is made from spuds or rice.
60% - potatoes grow on trees.
70% - cotton comes from sheep (Scotland!).
30% - did not know eggs came from chickens.
20% - did not know cheese came from milk.
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Children in Primary School
Various surveys in recent years
One eight year old girl on a visit to Pimhill Farm, Shropshire, was asked where eggs came from. She replied: “cows” but her friend corrected her: “No they don’t, they come from Tesco’s”.
But of course the point of all this is that actually milk doesn’t come from cows, it comes through cows from grass. Cows just do the conversion.
But why is this so important.

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Well just look at this picture of children sitting in a grass field, picking mushrooms by the look of it.
Grass is a unique and vital part of our rural landscape and environment. It does not look like this naturally.
It has many uses.

12. Grass
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Here we see sheep grazing in a park. Historic parks are hugely dependent on animals grazing, especially sheep.
Vista and views, light sand shades.

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The beef we eat depends largely on grass for fatting animals.
Between 1990 and 2003, total number of cattle grazing in England and Wales fell by 20%
Sheep by 23%
Decoupling ag support and the introduction of SFP is likely to exacerbate this trend.

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Open access, people have more choice where they can walk. No problem on grazed grass.
But how would you like to walk through this?

15. Scrub
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Not much fun, ungrazed grass becomes over gown and tangled – very difficult to walk through. In time scrub encroaches making access almost impossible unless you wear special clothes.

16. Scrub
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Eventually the grass just disappears making it almost impossible to economically bring the land back into production at a latter date.

17. Wildlife
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Many of our most important and threatened wildlife species depend on grazed grass.
Did you know that there are 5128 SSSIs in England and Wales covering 1,338,685 hectares.
Nearly 60% of those areas rely on grazing management to maintain their special conservation value.

18. Damage
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Ramparts of iron age fort

19. Damage
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Medieval ridge & furrow

20. So what must we do?
Explain to our children that the countryside that they see depends on livestock grazing.
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Explain to children that the countryside they see and will eventually come to value depends on livestock grazing,

21. How to do it – Top 10? 1. Promote British farming.
2. Develop more diverse markets.
Continue to argue for a fairer food chain.
4. Target Agri-Environment schemes.
Recognise the special place the hills play in tourism.
Legislation to support the management of commons.
7. Support livestock infrastructure.
Enforce compliance of import standards.
Improve the regulatory burden.
10. Match expansion of access to need.
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Read from report

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Henry Aubrey-Fletcher
Deputy President
Country Land & Business Association