RBST Borders Support Group
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Rare Breeds Survival Trust: national charity dedicated to conserving UK native breeds of farm livestock. This page gives news of RBST Borders Support Group.
NI Ag Minister Edwin Poots has said he will press for farming to be exempt from the country's planned net zero by 2050 target, with @UFUpresident Victor Chestnutt warning it'll lead to a 50% reduction in livestock numbers & put 113,000 jobs at risk fginsight.com/news/farming-s…
Old footstool covered with herdwick tweed from @MZebBenjamin made from @herdyshepherd1 wool. Gorgeous.
The role of heavy grazers in shaping a dynamic mosaic of vegetation types is increasingly recognised. This is the latest grass-chomping, seed-sowing, nutrient-cycling addition to the #Northwoods Rewilding Network. Her name is Belinda (if you like that kind of thing). #bigpicture
Nice little article in the @RBSTrarebreeds magazine, The Ark, about the Farm's trip to the Great Yorkshire Show
This is disgraceful. I don’t know what else to say. I’m genuinely stunned.
Out on the Ben Lawers hills yesterday. Looking at options for reintroducing cattle grazing to improve biodiversity. Summer hill cattle grazing was central to farming here in previous centuries.
