Book event

Join us to see how the McCririck family manage their mixed farming enterprise to maintain profitability and a landscape rich in wildlife.

Well managed hedgerows, field margins, woodlands and wild bird cover combine to create a network of habitats and wildlife corridors with abundant songbirds, grey partridges and brown hares. A superb example of productive agriculture and biodiversity working in harmony.

What you will learn:

The efficient use of field margins to benefit wildlife and streamline field operations.
How the business has benefited from agri-environment schemes going back almost 30 years and what management they are undertaking in their current AECS.
How the numbers of grey partridges and brown hares have benefitted from well managed field margins including the use of the Balgonie Grey Partridge mix.
How wildlife benefits from a mixed arable rotation including fodder crops and grazing for livestock along with the benefits of min-till.
See a farm landscape where the different habitats are linked by an extensive network of wildlife corridors and how this has a positive impact on wildlife.
We will also have the opportunity to discuss the livestock and arable enterprises including manure management and intercropping.