Deep-rooting legumes and herbs were key to keeping food in front of Ian Boyd’s Hereford herd at Whittington Lodge Farm as the 2022 drought challenged grassland farmers. Multispecies leys provided fodder for the mob-grazed cattle as the permanent pasture on the Cotswold brash soils turned yellow. “We used the techniques we have learned over the […]
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