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Rebuilding soil with livestock: one farmer's story

This film is about Duncan Leaney, a conventional tenant farmer near Taunton in Somerset who realised his farm was no longer viable due to the increasing costs of inputs such as chemical fertilisers and pesticides. At the same time his profit from cereal crops was not going up resulting in a cost-price squeeze. Heale Farm, a 300 acre mixed farm has been in Duncan’s family for 57 years. When Duncan heard about the potential of mob grazing methods he decided to try it out and was surprised by the results. Not only did a diversity of butterfly and bird species return to his farm, but his soil organic matter increased and he could put his stocking rate up. Duncan tells about an old farmer who once said to him, “in farming it’s easier to save money than to make money.” As a result of improving the rotations on his farm and using livestock to rebuild the soil, Duncan has also succeeded in making his farm viable.

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Организация: Sustainable Food Trust
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Год: 2017
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Географический охват: Европейский союз
Категория: Видеоматериал
Язык контента: English
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