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Ours is similar, red and white clover etcThe term regenerative ag seriously boils my pi55. Why not call it traditional methods?
I’ve got some 39 year old leys here which would make a mockery out of anything that could actually be sown. Wild white clover, wild red clover, dandelions/plantain in abundance, loads of purple fog type grasses, it’s very seldom that there isn’t something in flower or seeding. Just like most of the hills. The land is bared off over winter and then reduced stocking rate as the grass growth appears giving an abundance of wildlife etc.
We had a dung beetle survey done by a leading dung beetle scientist years ago who’d travelled the world and actually discovered several totally new species of dung beetles on the farm here
I am a bit old fashioned in the way I farm it
I tend to call it traditional, most of you will have farmed far longer than me although I am classed as an old fart I worked in industry until 10 years ago , so I am in no way trying to teach anyone how to suck eggs, but whatever terminology chosen, surely we all try and farm in the best way to suite the ground we have