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Well Mark went to link and found it absolutely brilliant and obviously masses of information,can't say how impressed I am.Pleased you had a great evening and my biggest suggestion would be in your first line(talking to 25 farmers,this must be the way to get things across probably through the local advisers.There must be hundreds of farmers discussion groups meeting once a month looking for speakers in winter and farm walks in summer,what a great chance to explain things on offer etc and the pleasure from it as well.Masses of great information but need to find some way to get farmers to visit your website.I realise talking to 25 at a time it seems slow but remember if you made an impression their neighbours will now be interested and word soon spreads.It may seem wrong to the general public but I do think that if land is taken out of production for margins,headlands etc farmers need compensating and the volunteer and farm alliance seems a really good idea hopefully putting nest boxes up etc.When we were farming we had a surprise when after putting a electric fence up across a grass field for the duration of the summer Skylark took advantage of the longer grass the cows couldn't reach and nested(food for thought perhaps).

One thing I could never solve was the hedge trimming,as to keep a hedge tight and thick needs trimming each year and on wet farms has to be done before end of October for the tractor to be able to get on the land.Hope comments are helpful and pleased you obviously changed a few farmers thinking which I promise will have more effect than NFU.I am sure the information is the right information and pitched right but the big problem is getting it in front of farmers as obviously they are looking at farming things but if once someone gets interested usually that interest grows especially something that must be interesting to have a million+ members.Yesterday we saw at Lodmoor one of the only nesting pair of Marsh Harriers that have nested in Dorset in last 50 years now how interesting is that,see what I mean.