Increase seed food sources for birds on arable farms |
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Provide foraging sites for seed-eating birds |
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Create 6m uncropped cultivated margins on arable land |
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Over-wintered stubbles |
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Create grassy habitat in corners of arable fields |
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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) |
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Undersow crops |
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Protect ancient trees in arable fields |
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Do not carry out any cultivations, storage of materials or machinery, or weed control under the canopy of in-field trees |
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Do not spread fertiliser, farmyard manure or inorganic N, P or K beneath the canopy of in-field trees |