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News that the Grasslands Trust has gone into liquidation marks a sad day. Grassland in Britain is threatened and diminishing, and the loss of such an important champion for this habitat should worry us all. Around 97 per cent of lowland meadows have been lost on the last 75 years, and one in five of our wild grasses and flowers and threatened with extinction.
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The report ... pulls together studies from UK and other temperate agriculture systems to show how trees planted as shelter belts help to reduce wind speeds, meaning water loss through evapotranspiration1 is slowed. This allows the sheltered crop to retain more water and use it efficiently. ... In the UK such shelter belts are relatively uncommon, but studies have shown cereal yields of sheltered crops can be higher than that for unsheltered crops, particularly in years when the weather is hot and dry. Delete the scoop?
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