Increase seed food sources for birds on arable farms Provide foraging sites for seed-eating birds Create 6m uncropped cultivated margins on arable land
Over-wintered stubbles
Create grassy habitat in corners of arable fields
Sow 6m wide blocks or strips with a combination of small-seed bearing crops (e.g. cereal, kale, quinoa, linseed, millet, mustard, fodder radish, borage)
Undersow crops
Protect ancient trees in arable fields Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees
Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees