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

Sustainable Food Trust

Temporary grasslands, in the form of fertility-building leys, play a key role in more environmentally sustainable arable systems that don’t rely on costly, fossil fuel-dependent agrichemicals. ” Well-managed grasslands don’t just provide benefits for people.

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A Blueprint for Cooling our Blue Planet

Farming Secrets

The same applies for CO2 in the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse gas effect, however carbon sequestered in the soil from the atmosphere via photosynthesis has many co-benefits to build soil fertility and soil structure so that the soil can retain more water. Increased soil carbon, soil nitrogen, soil moisture, nutrient cycling.