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Grazing in an environmentally sensitive way is not new for Farmers Weekly’s 2020 Beef Farmer of the Year, James Waight, who farms 4,400ha (10,868 acres) of some of the highest conservation-status grassland in the EU.
All the grassland that is grazed by his 470 South Devon and Angus-cross cattle is in Mid Tier or Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship. It is also classified either as a site of special scientific interest, special area of conservation, or special protection area.
Such protection is placed on the land surrounding Enford Farm because the chalkland of the Salisbury Plain provides a unique habitat and breeding ground for some of Europe’s rarest species of plants, butterflies and birds.
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