Herbal leys bring fertility back to light Cotswold soils
Herbal leys bring fertility back to light Cotswold soils >More in Toby Baxter's soil © MAG/David Jones Herbal leys are helping to return fertility to Toby Baxter’s light Cotswold limestone brashy soils, boosting his arable grain yields and allowing his livestock to thrive. The diverse temporary grass mix helps him finish 4,000 lambs annually without using a single pellet of concentrate feed, and he can cut nitrogen fertiliser on his succeeding arable crops. Mixing arable and livestock together on his stony marginal arable land has b...
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