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      Winter bird food

      Winter bird food provides a tailored food source for farmland birds throughout autumn and winter.

      • 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 15 May using the following mix (see table for sowing rates)
      • 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 1 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)
      Species Monoculture seed rate (kg/ha)
      Spring oats 150
      Spring triticale 180
      Spring wheat 180
      Spring barley 160
      Linseed 50
      Spring oil-seed rape 6
      Phacelia 8
      Fodder radish 10
      Mustard 15
      Spring vetch 40
      Lucerne 25
      Chicory 10
      Birdsfoot trefoil 12

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