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Buccleuch Estates Search for Optimum Leys

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After years of intensive grazing, it was in poor condition but a grazing trial is aiming to get the land back to health.

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Increasing grassland species improves pollination and yields

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Grasslands cover 30–40% of European agricultural areas. Agri-environmental schemes leading to even small changes in grassland biodiversity could elicit extensive benefits. A new study on working farms in southwest England highlights the contribution of the plant diversity of the grassland to the abundance and diversity of insect pollinators and their potential to increase crop yields. […]

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