Legume Fallow Mixture with Grass - 2 Year (AB15, NUM2, NUM3)

This option will provide food for farmland wildlife, such as pollen and nectar for pollinators, and invertebrate chick food for farmland birds.

For agreements starting before 1 January 2020

It will also offer a rotational reduction of blackgrass.

If successful there will be:

• a reduction in flowering blackgrass and an abundant supply of sown pollen and nectar-rich flowers between early and late summer in year 3 and year 5 of the agreement
• pollinating and beneficial insects such as bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies, using these flowers
• some adult farmland birds and chicks seen foraging in and around the sown fallow between April and July