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With more funding available to rejuvenate arable hedges, now is a good time to assess their health and restore their potential to be thriving habitats..

On-farm tree planting is linked to diversification opportunities, extra revenue, better farm productivity and meeting wider environmental goals – with

The year 2040 may seem a long way off. But it will soon come around and, by then, UK agriculture should be approaching our collective net-zero target set

A working experimental farm in the small Leicestershire village of Loddington is developing groundbreaking natural capital schemes that benefit farmers. 

Hedgerows through the winter provide food and shelter for many of our farmland birds and their leaf litter provides habitat for insects and invertebrates. Hedges also prevent soil erosion, water run-off and flooding and have benefits for pollinators through the warmer months. But the drive particularly towards more intensive farming since the 1950s has seen many hedgerows lost. From late November, the blackthorn, hawthorn and holly cling on to their berries. Hedges, farm woodland, field margins, stubbles and headlands, provide a semi natural habitat on which many farmland birds have come to re...