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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

For example, grazing animals such as cattle and sheep directly improve soil health and estimates suggest that the dung beetles that process their waste reduce cattle producers’ costs by £367 million per year. xviii] For example, Clifton Ings and Rawcliffe Meadows are a crucial part of the City of York’s flood defences.

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Measuring and valuing: Nature

Sustainable Food Trust

At the same time, productive land as well as field margins and natural areas can be of great value to nature – a traditionally managed hay meadow or unsprayed crop can harbour and support a range of biodiversity and facilitate the movement of species through the landscape. Our cattle are outside all year, and we don’t feed any grain.

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