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	Habitat Action Plan - Farmland and Grassland - Arable field margins
		The term arable field margin is used here to mean a strip of land lying between an arable crop and the field boundary, and extending a limited distance into the crop, which is deliberately managed to create conditions which benefit key farmland species.
		Arable flowers are well adapted to the annual rhythms of arable farming, producing abundant seed and thriving in places with regular disturbance and low competition from perennial plants.
		Annual cultivation for arable flowers is an option under the Scheme on lighter or sandy soils, preferably where there is some evidence of the plants either still occurring or having been present in the past and hence possibly resident in the seedbank.
	www.lincsbap.org /habitats/actionplan.php?hap=fg1 (2102 words)

	Agricultural Revolutions: Arable Plants - a field guide
		Many arable plants bear their flowers at the same height as the ears of cereal plants and their seeds are therefore harvested along with the crop.
		For some arable plants, storage and re-sowing was essential, particularly for those with little ability for the seed to persist in the soil, or with seed that was liable to rot or be eaten by pests.
		Arable Stewardship, aimed specifically at the management of arable land for biodiversity, was introduced in pilot areas in central East Anglia and the West Midlands in 1998.
	www.arableplants.fieldguide.co.uk /?P=agric_revs&SHC=1&PSD=1 (3093 words)

	The acquisition of the ownership rights of arable land
		According to the definition of the Act arable land means a parcel of land which is situated outside the limits of a settlement (unincorporated) and is registered in the real estate register as farmland, vineyard, orchard, garden, lawn, reed bank or forestry cultivation sectors or as a fish pond.
		Arable land situated within the confines of a farmstead of 6000 m
		In case the right of first refusal is concerned at a sale and purchase agreement regarding arable land or farmsteads, prior to the conclusion of the contract the seller of said properties shall notify those entitled to the right of first refusal about the accepted price.
	www.hidasi.hu /menu_60_eng.htm (683 words)

	Arable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Arable land under this definition includes all of the farmed area under the plough as well as the field margin.
		This HAP therefore covers all cultivated land, including arable crops, grass leys (when they are part of the rotation and less than 5 years old), vegetables, and non-food crops (such as flax) as well as the field margin.
		Arable weed species are now restricted to a few locations, usually in the less-well cultivated margins of fields on the South Downs.
	www.biodiversitysussex.org /arable.htm (5758 words)

	7. Arable land
		The arable area for two feed intensity scenario variants of the medium scenario are also presented.
		The arable land area is calculated from the harvested areas presented in Appendix 17 and discussed in Chapter 4, and the cropping intensities.
		Although the high feed demand scenario results in a minor increase in the arable land areas (1% in 2010; 3% in 2025; 7% in 2050), the absolute increase for all developing countries is some 10 million ha in 2010, close to 30 million ha in 2025 and 70 million ha in 2050.
	www.fao.org /docrep/w5146e/w5146e0a.htm (1053 words)

	Arable Crops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Arable crops are therefore important not just for consumers but also for farmers.
		Arable crops in Malta cover an area that can be estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000 hectares.
		Finally, Malta is requesting a supplement to the aid provisions given by the EU to support producers of arable crops on a maximum area of 4,500 hectares to ensure roughage availability for ruminant livestock and rabbits.
	www.mic.org.mt /EUINFO/sector/arable_crops.htm (1445 words)

	Wildlife and countryside conservation promoted by the Northmoor Trust
		A list of 51 'target rare arable flowers', known to have occurred in the county, including both nationally rare species and more widespread, but characteristic arable species, was compiled.
		Bearing in mind the likelihood that the seed-bank reserves of the rarer arable plant species have declined to critically low levels, conservation action should be rapid to protect biodiversity and prevent further extinctions.
		The organic arable fields were found to provide a habitat for many rare and declining arable flowers which were not recorded from neighbouring conventional fields at all.
	www.northmoortrust.co.uk /home/land_science/ecology/arable_flowers (1831 words)

	Arable land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most of the arable land on earth is around the largest rivers on earth; for example, the Nile River, the Mississippi River, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Yellow River, the Amazon River, the Ganges and the Rhine River.
		Aran Islands: This island off the west coast of Ireland, (not to be confused with the Isle of Arran in Scotland's Firth of Clyde), was unarable because it was too rocky.
		Each year more arable land is lost to desertification and erosion from human industrial activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arable (685 words)

	CAP reform - The arable crops sector
		Arable crops include a wide range of annual crops such as wheat, barley, maize, rye, colza, sunflower, peas, etc. Since 1992, they have been eligible for a hectare-based Community aid scheme which also includes "set-aside" measures for withdrawing land from cultivation.
		A brief summary of the reform regarding arable crops and the new practical arrangements planned for the sector for the period 2000-2006 is provided in the pages that follow.
		In the arable crops sector, these notably include the abolition of extraordinary set-aside and individual base areas and the streamlining of compensatory payments for oilseeds.In addition, a single management committee will now be responsible for all arable crops.
	ec.europa.eu /agriculture/publi/fact/cereals/index_en.htm (3133 words)

	Arable land news
		Most of the arable land on earth is around the largest rivers on earth;[citation needed] for example, the Nile River, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, the Yellow River, the Amazon River, the Ganges and the Rhine River.
		The ground lies outside the city, surrounded by arable land, and is tended by Nick Holmes, the manager and former FA Cup winner with Southampton.
		Crops raised on 600 hectares of arable land were destroyed and 1800 hectares of arable land became unfit for cultivation.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/eco/Arable_land.html (1366 words)

	B&BC BAP - Arable Field Margins Habitat Action Plan
		For the purposes of this Action Plan "arable field margin" refers to strips of land lying between arable crops and the field boundary, and extending for a limited distance into the crop, which are deliberately managed to create conditions which benefit key farmland species.
		Arable field margins produce low crop yields, and due to current grants available could be managed for wildlife at little or no economic cost.
		Arable wild flowers are of conservation concern because of enormous national declines in their distribution and abundance.
	www.wildlifetrust.org.uk /urbanwt/ecorecord/bap/html/fields.htm (1212 words)

	Shrinking Arable Lands Jeopardizing China's Food Security \| Worldwatch Institute
		This has been the dominant driver of arable land loss in recent years, accounting for 84.5, 88.2, 91.6, and 87.3 percent of the annual net losses of the past four years, respectively.
		This has changed the overall makeup of the country’s remaining arable land; only 28 percent is now high-yielding farmland, while 32 percent is low-yielding.
		According to statistics, one-sixth of China’s total arable lands are polluted by heavy metals, and more than 40 percent are degenerated due to erosion and desertification.
	www.worldwatch.org /node/3912 (524 words)

	Defra UK; ERDP - pre_erdp schemes - Arable Stewardship Scheme
		Arable Stewardship was a Defra pilot scheme which offered payments to arable farmers to manage their land in ways which encourage wildlife.
		Changes in arable farming over the last few decades have contributed to a loss of wildlife habitats and the decline in the population of a number of species of birds, insects, mammals and plants.
		Arable Stewardship was set up to test whether certain arable farming methods could help to do this.
	www.defra.gov.uk /erdp/schemes/pre_erdp/arable.htm (256 words)

	B&BC BAP - Arable Fields Habitat Action Plan
		One third of all agricultural land is arable and 40% of that is cultivated for winter wheat.
		Arable Stewardship is a pilot scheme in Cambridgeshire and the Staffordshire/Shropshire border, to test whether certain arable farming methods can help to recreate and enhance wildlife habitats.
		The structure of arable fields changes, at times quite rapidly, as crops are sown, grow and are harvested and the soil ploughed.
	www.wildlifetrust.org.uk /urbanwt/ecorecord/bap/html/arable.htm (1551 words)

	CBS - Less arable land, fewer arable farmers - Web magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While more than 16 thousand arable farmers grew crops on 535 thousand hectares in 1990, these figures had fallen to fewer than 13 thousand farmers and only 474 thousand hectares, one quarter of all agricultural land.
		The decline in arable farming is especially noticeable in the three largest arable provinces: Zeeland, Flevoland and Groningen.
		In Flevoland arable farmers supplied more than half of agricultural output in the early nineties; by 2001 this had fallen to 42 percent of the total production of this province.
	www.cbs.nl /en-GB/menu/themas/bedrijfsleven/landbouw-visserij/publicaties/artikelen/archief/2002/2002-0925-wm.htm?languageswitch=on (253 words)

	Arable Farmland
		Arable land in Lancashire and Cornwall is the last stronghold of one plant, endemic to the UK (Purple ramping-fumitory).
		Arable farming is particularly important in lowland areas of north west England especially in west Lancashire and on the Fylde but also in north Cheshire, parts of Merseyside, the western parts of Greater Manchester and the Solway plain in Cumbria.
		Establish a database of arable biodiversity using bird, brown hare, water vole, newt and botanical data.
	www.lbap.org.uk /bap/habitat/arable.htm (1776 words)

	Arable reversion - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Arable land can be reverted to grassland to increase the variety of habitat in predominantly arable areas.
		Pockets of arable cultivation within pastoral areas are also important, so conversion to grassland may not always be appropriate.
		Arable reversion grassland does not have to be botanically rich to be good for birds.
	www.rspb.org.uk /countryside/farming/advice/farmhabitats/reversion/index.asp (358 words)

	FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This means our vital arable land resource will be significantly affected by the expansion of urbanization and highways throughout the country.
		Even assuming that in the future the arable land lost to these processes will approach half an acre per capita, which is approximately the current rate of expansion in Europe, still 60 million acres of arable land will be taken out of production.
		This land requirement can be expected to diminish arable, pasture, and forest lands to some extent, with the most critical loss being arable land.
	dieoff.org /page40.htm (4937 words)

	Managing arable reversion - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Changing arable land to grassland rich in wild plants can be a long process, but benefits for birds can be achieved more quickly.
		Arable reversion grassland does not have to be species-rich to benefit birds.
		For example, most farmers entering an arable reversion option are eligible to apply for sheep and/or suckler cow quota, for that land, from the National Reserve.
	www.rspb.org.uk /countryside/farming/advice/farmhabitats/reversion/reversion.asp (976 words)

	Environment Agency - Arable
		Arable farming has a lower potential for point source pollution, as the diversity of stored pollutants such as slurry, feeds and animal health products are not on farm.
		Arable farming is a major contributor to diffuse pollution.
		They tend to be autumn applied and may only be present in water for a few days, but this is enough for water companies to invest millions of pounds to safeguard our drinking water.
	www.environment-agency.gov.uk /business/444304/1224648/1224702/?version=1&lang=_e (288 words)

	Arable land Summary
		Arable land has soil and topography suitable for economical and practical cultivation of crops.
		Forested land is also nonarable, although it can be farmed if the area is cleared and the soil and topography are suitable for cultivation.
		Of the earth's 57 million square miles (148,000,000 km²) of land, approximately 12 million square miles (31,000,000 km²) are arable; however, arable land is being lost at the rate of over ten million hectares per year, and forests (mostly tropical) are being destroyed at a rate of about fifteen million hectares per year
	www.bookrags.com /Arable_land (773 words)

	Land (millions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Today, over half of the arable land in the world is in fact not under cultivation.
		For example, only about 28% of the arable land on the African continent is used for growing crops.
		Immense tracts of forests or jungles would have to be cleared to bring the rest of the arable land on that continent to productive use.
	pages.prodigy.net /jhonig/bignum/qland2.html (376 words)

	Argument - Trends in Arable Land
		Arable land is a precious resource for China's agriculture.
		Most of the country is covered by steep mountains (see Map 1), stony deserts, or dry grasslands (see Map 2), which are unsuitable for agriculture.
		Compared with the excessive conversion of natural and agricultural land due to urban sprawl and infrastructure construction in North America and Europe, loss of cultivated land in China is minimal.
	www.iiasa.ac.at /Research/LUC/ChinaFood/argu/trends/trend_50.htm (1842 words)

	Changing Flora of Manchester - arable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At one time there were arable fields very close to the city centre of Manchester.
		We tend to imagine that these fields were full of arable weeds, but Leo Grindon points out in his 1859 'Manchester Flora' that weeds such as Cornflowers and Corn Marigolds were cleared from the cornfields by diligent farmers.
		This is an example of a rare introduced arable weed found occurring in a cornfield at Blackley in 1876.
	museum.man.ac.uk /collections/botany/Manchester_flora/arable.htm (333 words)

	Restoring arable farming's contribution to Biodiversity \| RuralNI
		We are all well aware of the decline in arable farming.
		This decline, along with the intensification of the arable land remaining, has had catastrophic consequences for wildlife.
		The starkest examples of this are the extinction, as breeding populations, of corn bunting and grey partridge.
	www.ruralni.gov.uk /environment/countryside/restoring_arable_farming.htm (484 words)

	TAG - The Arable Group - Independent Agronomy Information for Arable Farmers
		The Arable Group makes every effort to ensure that the information published on the TAG web site is accurate and up to date.
		However, no warranty can be given as to the accuracy, reliability, or suitability for purpose, of the information on the site, and accordingly all users who rely on this information do so at their own risk.
		The Arable Group cannot control the content of any such linked sites, and therefore cannot be held responsible for the contents, views expressed, or reliability of the linked web sites.
	www.thearablegroup.com /leg-m1.htm (569 words)

	Arable Farming - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		The crops are mainly produced for humans or animals to eat, although increasingly some crops are grown for industrial uses.
		The way in which cropped or arable land is managed by farmers has big implications for birds and other wildlife.
		The RSPB has some arable land on its own nature reserves where the crops grown are mainly left unharvested to provide over-winter feeding for birds.
	www.rspb.org.uk /countryside/farming/farmingUK/arable_farming.asp (354 words)

	2002 SONZAF - Arable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Arable farms are generally run in combination with a range of other enterprises, including vegetables, sheep, cattle, deer and the provision of grazing and fodder crops for dairy farms.
		Overall, the medium term outlook for the arable industry is better than it has been for some time, in comparison to other land uses.
		New Zealand will always be an importer of arable products and therefore will continue to be subject to political, climatic and market influences at the international level, which can alter the outlook for arable production, both markedly and suddenly.
	www.maf.govt.nz /mafnet/rural-nz/statistics-and-forecasts/sonzaf/2002/sonzaf-02-30.htm (1890 words)

	Talk:Arable land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The aim is to write neutral and well-referenced articles on environment-related topics, as well as to ensure that environment articles are properly categorized.
		The word "arable" sounds as if it should mean "land that can be farmed", not "land that can be, and is, farmed".
		3 arable acres (I could be wrong, but it'd be easier to give specific characteristics of a few specific acres).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Arable_land (1035 words)

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