Farming pictures
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A sunflower cover crop continues to provide a food resource deep into winter helping to maintain farmland birds.
Sorghum can be grown to produce a dense cover crop to shelter wildlife. Here the plant is in flower.
A colourful mix of maize and linseed in a game the cover crop.
The striking colours of Quinoa, a popular crop with farmers looking to provide a large volume of feed to farmland birds.
A mustard crop being grown as game cover.
A strip of Triticale being used for game cover and as a wild bird food. Unharvested cereals are an important food supply for birds during the winter months.
Phacelia grown to provide a habitat / food source for insects. It is recognised by its blue flowers which appear to unfurl.
The flowers of borage, an annual that is often grown as part of a mix for wildlife benefit or as game cover. Borage can sometimes be found in the countryside as a pure crop.
Buckwheat, a plant that is now commonly found in conservation mixes but which through history, has been widely cultivated.
Canary grass is sometimes included in conservation mixes for its seed and habitat.
Buckwheat
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A crop of millet being grown the game and wild bird cover.
A mixture of kale and quinoa in a cover plot designed to provide habitat and food for farmland birds.
The flower of the chicory plant.
A dense stand of sorghum provides good cover for wildlife.
The flowers of Phacelia, a plant that is often grown in conservation mixes and which seems popular with bees.
Millet is commonly found in Asia and Africa rarely grown as a crop in the UK. However it is popular in game cover and conservation seed mixes.
Chicory being grown in a conservation plot.
Chicory in a mix being grown to provide a winter feed source for farmland birds.
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