With slightly rolling and marginal flat land that blighted its landscape, this is utilized for lowland farming.

The net result seems to be that lowland farming conglomerates are financially happy, as are the manufacturers of agricultural chemicals and the owners of storage silos.

Elsewhere the county is relatively flat, most of the land being used for lowland farming of dairy cows, agronomy crops, oil seed rape, and the well-known Pembrokeshire Potato.

During the nineteenth century this link between the type of housing and the social structure of the village was made explicit in the lowland farming areas by the division between 'open' and 'closed'villages.

It is they who are in the forefront of conservation societies, who complain about uprooted hedgerows in the lowland farming areas and who resent the destruction or diversion of footpaths.

I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families, but hill farming has always been, and still is, a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job.

The life zones of West Virginia allow for a diversity of habitats for fauna (animal life), varying from large lowland farming valleys bordered with forest and meadow to highland ridge flats and heavy forestland, some with rocky ridge-line peaks.

Though Kellen knew of the lowland farming villages that had supplied Armethalieh with food, he'd never seen anything other than the illustrations in books of wondertales, so Merryvale was as strange and alien a world to him as the Wildwood itself had been.

Building on previous modelling work on land allocation for afforestation on upland farms and on the conservation value of farmland in Devon, the research aims to develop a computerised model of lowland farming situations to test out the likely impact of various economic incentives and technical possibilities for farm forestry.