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I’m with you and your grandad thereYes a lot of time and money has been spent here improving things, especially the meadow land and better pastures. You can see the difference in the stock for doing so as well. Granda always said good ground should be bare, stock doesnt do right when the grass has been left to go rank and all the goodness has gone out of it. You cant tell these clipboard waving folk that tho, they’re not interested in what the stock is like. Just how many birds and bees there are.
A lot of ground that used to be bare in the spring ( they would say overgrazed) was teaming with lapwings and curlews, when they all went into stewardship and cut the stock back the rushes took over and the birds disappeared. It was all the farmers fault tho.
Hill ground needs to be able to carry a decent number of stock then it works well