Farmers’ actions play a key role in maintaining and managing existing natural habitats while there are opportunities to create new habitats on beef farms according to Teagasc.
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Leave A Whitehorn Tree In Every Hedge
This provides pollen for the bees and other insects and haws as food for the birds.
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Allow Routinely Trimmed Hedgerows Grow Taller
Birds nest in hedgerows over 1.4m high which provide cover from predators. A mixture of hedgerows that are routinely trimmed and ones that are allowed grow is preferable.
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Clean Watercourses In An Environmentally Friendly Way
When cleaning a channel, just remove vegetation and silt and spread thinly along the bank. Leave stone and gravel undisturbed and retain bank slopes in tact with a margin of vegetation…
Agriland.ie, 16/07/16. read the full article ‘10 ways to boost a beef farm’s natural biodiversity‘.
