Working with five farms across the national park, each farm would need to produce a grazing management plan, implement adaptive grazing management, optimise sward productivity through rotational grazing systems and maintain permanent habitats in good biodiversity condition.
The project aimed to utilise mob grazing methods to manage grasslands better, increase sward species diversity, and create biodiverse pastures.
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