Dairy cows grazing outside for 12 months of the year have helped kickstart an improvement in soils and arable crop yields on Sophie Alexander’s south Dorset organic farm, helping to offset the current sharp decline in direct farm subsidies. Winter oat yields on her light chalky soils are approaching 6t/ha, while a spring bi-crop of […]
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