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• Conservation Grade Student

  Yesterday I travelled to Royston in Hertfordshire for an Induction Day into becoming a farmer growing 'Conservation Grade' milling wheat for this years harvest. The training took place at Thrift Farm and is owned by Robert Law Robert has been... Posted Feb 15 2012, 06:14 PM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Barn Owl, higher level stewardship, game and wildlife conservation trust, Agriculture, Wild Bird Food, Farm, food, Conservation Grade [Edit Tags]

• Crow Predation

  Paul, the head keeper at Overbury sent me this picture of a crow that was living on the farm. Under the nest was a total of 56 pheasant eggs and 5 partridge eggs. These eggs were all from wild bird nests and just goes to show the damage that just one... Posted May 28 2010, 11:07 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: game and wildlife conservation trust, Magpies, Crows [Edit Tags]

• Walking on a Higher Level

  On Monday Paul, Rod and I went to Guiting Power, just up in the Cotswolds to have a look around a farm that is doing lots of really good things for farmland birds. We spent the morning looking at habitat creation for chick feed sources, winter food and... Posted Mar 05 2010, 04:38 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: game and wildlife conservation trust, natural England [Edit Tags]