Year: 2013
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- Annual cultivated margins
- Arable
- Bats
- Dry stone walls
- Existing wildlife habitats
- Farmed area
- Field boundaries
- Flower-rich grassland
- Flower-rich habitats
- Hedgehogs
- Hedges
- Mountain, hill and moorland
- Permanent wildflower margins and corners
- Rotational legume and herb-rich swards
- Rotational legume and herb-rich swards
- Scrub
- Seed-rich habitats
- Sown pollinator areas
- Trees
- Uncategorised
- Wet features
- Wildflower-rich grassland creation
- Wildflower-rich grassland restoration
- Wildflower-rich meadows
- Wildflower-rich pastures
- Woodland
Case Study: Using ELS to maximise wildlife benefits in the Fens
Author: Steve Pinder Farm: Greeves Farm, Cambridgeshire I am a County Council tenant farmer. I grow winter wheat, beet, rape, and potatoes. I used to grow plots of miscanthus as game...
Case Study: Establishing a nectar mix on chalk in the Yorkshire Wolds
Author: Chris Tomson Farm: Towthorpe Manor Farm Aims: Towthorpe Manor Farm is a 242ha arable farm with chalk dales grazed with native breed cattle. There is a small shoot with...
Case Study: Wet grassland and rush management for breeding waders
Author: Gavin Thomas Farm: Chipping Moss, Leagram Estate, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire Aims: The primary aim was to restore upland in-bye wet grassland for breeding lapwings, redshanks, oystercatchers, snipe and curlews....
Case Study: Buffer strips on intensive grassland
Author: Robert Kynaston Farm: Great Wollaston Farm, Shropshire Aims: Two and six metre grass margins have been established in fields with arable cropping as part of the rotation. Margins were established...
Case Study: A farmland bird package on limestone soils
Author: Jeff Platts Farm: Hazelmere Farm, Creswell, Derbyshire Aims: To provide summer insect food and seed food over winter for seed-eating birds, particularly targeting grey partridges and tree sparrows, and...
Case Study: Cultivated margins
Author: Nicholas Watts Farm: Vine House Farm, Lincolnshire Aims: The aim was to create an insect-rich foraging habitat for farmland birds. I farm on fertile peat soils, so effective control...
Case Study: Skylark Plots
Author: Ian DillonFarm: Grange Farm, Cambridgeshire Aims: We include two skylark plots per hectare in all winter cereal fields on the farm as an easy means of supporting skylark numbers on...
Case Study: Wild flower margins
Author: Nicholas Watts Farm: Vine House Farm, Lincolnshire Aims: The aim was to boost insect food for farmland birds through the summer. The farm is on peat soils in the Lincolnshire...