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Bringing birds back to the farm

Achieving a balance between productive farming and providing a habitat for our once common farmland birds is not for the faint hearted. Gaina Morgan meets Ian Gray to find out more about how he and his partner,

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Bringing birds back to the farm

The management system adopted by Ian and Nia is typical and involves resting fields to allow wildflowers to thrive, leaving some fields and margins unsprayed and sowing wild bird cover crops such as millet,...

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