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| Flowers & grasses of unimproved pasture, from the top: devil's bit scabious; crested dogstail; green-winged orchid; quaking grass; pepper saxifrage; red fescue; ragged robin; sweet vernal grass; snake's head fritillary. | _Flowers & grasses of unimproved pasture, from the top: devil's bit scabious; crested dogstail; green-winged orchid; quaking grass; pepper saxifrage; red fescue; ragged robin; sweet vernal grass; snake's head fritillary._ |
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| Harrow being pulled behind a tractor - stimulates growth by allowing light and air into the grass shoots, and by spreading piles of muck. | _Harrow being pulled behind a tractor - stimulates growth by allowing light and air into the grass shoots, and by spreading piles of muck._ |
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| Improved grassland species: perennial ryegrass; red clover; cocksfoot; white clover; Timothy. | _Improved grassland species: perennial ryegrass; red clover; cocksfoot; white clover; Timothy._ |
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| Cattle on improved pasture; animals allowed to graze outdoors on grassland are healthier, and produce better meat than animals fed on grain and largely kept indoors. | _Cattle on improved pasture; animals allowed to graze outdoors on grassland are healthier, and produce better meat than animals fed on grain and largely kept indoors._ |
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| Three types of unimproved grassland: lowland hay meadow with southern marsh orchids; cattle grazing on springline mire in the Blackdown Hills; calcareous (chalk) grassland. | _Three types of unimproved grassland: lowland hay meadow with southern marsh orchids; cattle grazing on springline mire in the Blackdown Hills; calcareous (chalk) grassland._ |
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| Haymaking with tractor and by hand. | _Haymaking with tractor and by hand._ |
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| Fine-leaved grasses of unimproved pasture provide food for the larvae of butterflies, such as (from the top) ringlet; hedge brown; marbled white; meadow brown. | _Fine-leaved grasses of unimproved pasture provide food for the larvae of butterflies, such as (from the top) ringlet; hedge brown; marbled white; meadow brown._ |
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| There are vast areas of natural grassland, like this African savanna, that support huge numbers of grazing animals. | _There are vast areas of natural grassland, like this African savanna, that support huge numbers of grazing animals._ |
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| Plants you don't want in your pasture: nettles; spear thistle; dock; ragwort. | _Plants you don't want in your pasture: nettles; spear thistle; dock; ragwort._ |
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| ## Specialists | |
| | ## Related topics |
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| | - [[hedg:Hedges]] |
| | - [[livs:livestock|Keeping livestock]] |
| | - [[fenc:Fences]] |
| | - [[gate:Gates|Gates & stiles]] |
| | - [[catl:cattle|Cattle]] |
| | - [[shep:Sheep]] |
| | - [[scyt:Scything]] |
| | - [[alps:Alpacas]] |
| | - [[drys:Dry stone walling]] |
| | - [[gees:Geese]] |
| | - [[smho:Smallholding]] |
| | - [[woho:Working horses]] |
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