Leicester Forest East Residents Action Group

Lubbesthorpe New Town

 

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Land & Farming

The future

When:

• The world’s population is growing fast and expected to reach 9 billion people within 40 years.
• Increasing wealth and changing patterns of consumption are leading to a rising per capita, demand for food.
• Most of the world’s potential arable land is already under cultivation.
• The supply of fertiliser is limited and now expensive.
• Climate change, of whatever origin, through drought, desertification and extreme temperature is limiting the productive capacity of some farm land.
• Energy crops are required to substitute the increasingly expensive cost of fossil fuels.
• The revolution of using plants to produce useful non food crops, ranging from plastics to pharmaceuticals is just beginning.

Then,

It’s right to preserve every possible acre of agricultural land for future generations and to start developing the agricultural science that will help us deal with the challenges ahead. For a small densely populated island, agriculture in the UK has never been more important.

 

From URL: http://www.ukagriculture.com with thanks

Lubbesthorpe

 

The land at the proposed site is of a good quality and is very productive agricultural land. There are approximately 310 acres of rich pasture land, having a herd of 100 cows, which in turn produces 500,000 litres of milk a year alone. Add to this, the suckler cow herd and finishing units which have 250 cows, which in turn produce 200 calves per year, and additional fattening cattle totalling 650 animals, which provide 185,900 kgs of meat per year. (the carcass wastage has been removed from these figures.)

Then you need to add the 550 acres of wheat grown, averaged very conservatively, at 3.5 tonnes to the acre, this totals 2,000 tonnes of

 

Land is rich in produce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wheat a year, which broken down into detail means that 1 tonne of wheat provides 1,000 loaves of bread. So this is exactly 2,000,000 loaves of bread.

 

All this local production with the minimum of a carbon footprint, and nowhere to replace such production. In the event of these plans being submitted, common sense alone would guide you to OBJECT to this development proposal. Plans of such magnitude are not acceptable and realistically, with nowhere available to replace such production, coupled with world food shortages that everyone is aware of, surely it would be better to let common sense prevail and leave the development on the drawing board.

 

Thanks to S.Coar of LFE  for this information.