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Promising Conservation Results in the 2022 Agricultural Census

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Rotational grazing can improve pasture soil health, reduce erosion, improve forage quality, and improve water management as it improves climate resilience. Using conservation tillage involves covering at least 30% of soil surface with crop residue and/or straw following planting.

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Fifty years of nurturing nature

Sustainable Food Trust

We reseed with herbal leys in our arable rotation, which is a seven-year rotation moving around about half of our fields: combinable cereals for two years, then a year of oats/peas/barley cut as an arable silage in July and undersown with an herbal ley, which will be fertility building for the next five to six years.

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