Non Grass Legume Fallow Mixture - 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 on or after 1 January 2021

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