ACRES
Winter Bird Food
Winter Bird Food provides a tailored food source for farmland birds throughout autumn and winter.
Product benefits (ACRES)
- Suitable for farmland birds
- Feed source through autumn and winter
Mixture breakdown
| Sowing rate (kg/ha) [1ac pack] | Species |
| 9.10 | Oats |
| 1.20 | Tillage radish |
| 0.60 | Mustard |
| 0.70 | Phacelia |
| 5.00 | Linseed |
| 16.60 |
Usage instructions
- Establish a 6 or 8 m winter bird food strip along a field boundary.
- Minimum payment area is 0.25ha; maximum area is 3ha.
- Protect from livestock using a fence that is fit for purpose.
- Establish the crop by 15th May.
- At least one cereal: spring oats/triticale/wheat/barley.
- At least two of the following: linseed, oil-seed rape, phacelia, fodder radish, mustard, spring vetch, lucerne, chicory or birds-foot trefoil.
- Once sown, only spot treatment of noxious and invasive weeds is allowed. Pesticides are not permitted.
- Harvesting of the crop is not permitted and it must remain in situ until 1st March the following year.
- Fertiliser can be applied up to a maximum of half the N and P rate for spring oats (as described in Statutory Instrument Number 113 of 2022).