Products — Conservation mixtures

Campaign for the Farmed Environment is working hand in hand with key industry stakeholders such as NFU, CLA, FWAG, LEAF, AIC, GWCT, AICC and CAAV and liaising in partnership with DEFRA and its agencies Natural England, and the Environmental Agency as well as the RSPB and other wildlife representatives. This is to encourage farmers and land managers to adopt imported land management practices that will benefit the environment.

Please ask for any specific mixtures that are required, or have been recommended and we will be pleased to help.

Field Margins

2m & Beetle Bank

5.0 kg Cocksfoot
3.0 kg Red Fescue
2.0 kg Timothy
• 10.0 kg per acre

6m Margin and Stewardship

Church of Bures Stewardship

2.0 kg Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass
2.0 kg Meadow Fescue
2.0 kg Chewings Fescue
2.0 kg Sheeps Fescue
1.0 kg Timothy
1.0 kg Highland Bent
• 10.0 kg per acre

Pollen and Nectar

20% Crested Dogstail
20% Meadow Fescue
10% Chewings Fescue
10% Sheeps Fescue
10% Timothy
5% Slender Creeping Red Fescue
5% Common Bent
5% Red Clover
2% Alsike Clover
5% Sainfoin
4% Common Vetch
2% Black Medick (Trefoil)
2% Black Knapweed
10.0 kg per acre

Arable Reversion

Recreate Grassland Mixture

2.0 kg Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass
2.0 kg Meadow Fescue
2.0 kg Chewings Fescue
2.0 kg Sheeps Fescue
1.0 kg Bentgrass
0.5 kg Timothy
0.5 kg Essex Broad Red Clover
• 10.0 kg per acre

GENERAL PURPOSE WILDLIFE MIXTURES

Both these mixtures can be used in many different situations ie. field margins, meadow mixtures, reservoir/pond surrounds and as a wild flower base mixture. These mixtures are an ideal and cost effective way of complying with the rules of almost all of the schemes.

(Heavy Land)

2.0 kg Red Fescue
2.0 kg Chewings Fescue
2.0 kg Meadow Fescue
2.0 kg Timothy
1.0 kg Smooth-stalked meadow grass
1.0 kg Crested Dogstail
• 10.0 kg per acre

(Light Land)

2.0 kg Meadow Fescue
2.0 kg Red Fescue
1.5 kg Sheeps Fescue
1.0 kg Crested Dog’s-tail
2.0 kg Cocksfoot
1.0 kg Smooth-stalked meadow grass
0.5 kg Brown Top
• 10.0 kg per acre

Bumblebees & Butterflies Mixture

see Wild Flowers

Wild Bird Mixtures

Church Wild Bird

This is a mixture that will provide shelter and food for a whole host of birds: skylarks, chaffinches, goldfinches, yellow hammers, sparrows, reed buntings etc.

30% White Millet
20% Canary Seed
15% Linseed
15% Sunflower
10% Triticale
5% Kale
5% Quinoa
• 10.0 kg per acre

Church RSPB Conservation

In conjunction with the RSPB we have devised a farmland bird conservation mixture. This mixture is selected to feed the wild birds and encourage an increase in their numbers.

20% Kale
30% Quinoa
50% White Millet
• 8.0 kg per acre

DEFRA Wild Bird Mixtures

Conservation mixtures are now commonplace in the countryside. This is part of DEFRA’s commitment to restoring farmland bird numbers as stated in the Biodiversity Action Plan. The acceptable mixtures must contain plenty of seed producing plants such as quinoa, millet, sunflower, wheat etc. These mixtures provide a bird table of food throughout the winter months that will help the vulnerable farmland birds and so reverse the national decline. The 20% of kale in the mixture will provide good shelter and cover.

For more information contact us at the office or for a detailed insight into the new schemes visit the campaign for the Farmed Environment.

www.cfeonline.org.uk

WM1 Wild Bird Seed Mixture

80% Cereal Mixture
10% Kale
10% Quinoa
• 20.0 kg per acre

For any customers entering into an Entry Level Scheme or HLS scheme, please ring the office and ask for advice on what is needed in order that your seed meets the requirement for DEFRA.