Winter Bird Food
Winter Bird Food provides a tailored food source for farmland birds throughout autumn and winter.
1 acre pack
| Species | Sowing rate (kg/ac) |
| Oats | 9.10kg |
| Tillage radish | 1.20kg |
| Mustard | 0.60kg |
| Phacelia | 0.70kg |
| Linseed | 5.00kg |
| Total | 16.60kg |
Option to mix with cereal seed
| Species | Sowing rate (kg/ha) |
| Mustard | 5.00kg |
| Phacelia | 2.70kg |
| Total | 7.70kg |
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- Establish a 6 or 8 m winter bird food strip along a field boundary
- Minimum payment area is 0.25 ha; maximum area is 3 ha
- 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)