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The value of well-managed grazing on Scotland’s grasslands

Sustainable Food Trust

To others, they represent an inefficient use of land and would be much better put under forestry or bioenergy crops to help the nation meet its net zero targets. Species-rich grasslands today cover just a fraction of their former area, with most converted to improved pasture or arable land over the past century.