Countryside management students
have been preparing the colleges cover crop, having completed their NPTC ATV
& Tractor driving certificates as part of their course they had a chance to
put their qualifications into practice. They used the colleges new Case tractor
to disc the soil to break down the clods to prepare a fine seed bed. They then drove the quad bike and grain
spinner to broadcast the mixture of seeds which would form the bulk of cover
for the college game birds.
The cover crop they have sown contains maize, red and white
millet, sunflowers, kale, buckwheat and forage rape. This will produce a cover
crop that will provide additional feed, cover and shelter for the pheasants and
partridges found on the college’s 430 hectare estate.
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