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They will have to agree to keep field margins next to rivers, canals and streams out of production and free from pesticide sprays.

right...but won't that merely result in messy, weedy banks?

better than pesticides, but couldn't something be planted in edible landscaping, which once installed, would shade out the weeds?

trips down canals should be an aesthetic experience, even if they haven't realised the 'commodity' in that yet!

electric barges+organic ag= edible fish in the waterways again...

good start anyway, well done, little grey brussels-men!

~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 10:35:30 AM EST
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No, that will result in narrow scrub forests along the river banks. Great wildlife refuges, if left to themselves.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 10:41:08 AM EST
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