ACRES

Winter Bird Food

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

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Product benefits (ACRES)

  • Suitable for farmland birds
  • Feed source through autumn and winter

Mixture breakdown

Sowing rate (kg/ha) [1ac pack]Species
9.10Oats
1.20Tillage radish
0.60Mustard
0.70Phacelia
5.00Linseed
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).

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