| Livestock poaching during the incessant wet weather and machinery operations on soft ground has done enormous damage to grass swards. |
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| The ground flora in the oak woods ranges from areas of bilberry through grassy swards to rich moss carpets and small alder flushes. |
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| Thus the potential nutritive value of uncut silage swards is limited, and the emphasis must now be on conserving them as an edible feedstuff. |
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| The introduction of winter-sowing has thus been inimical to both cirl buntings and skylarks, leading to the loss of overwinter stubbles and dense cereal swards. |
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| Open swards are more liable to poaching so greater care is needed. |
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| This five-page factsheet looks at Common nardoo which forms dense swards following flooding, and forms a dominant component of the groundcover layer. |
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| Today's grass pitches at the top level are rarely anything but pristine swards of green with barely a mark on them. |
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| It can safely repair matted and erodet lawns and rejuvenate existing swards. |
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| Fairways and tees are covered with Bermuda 419 hybrid, which provides year-round, top quality swards. |
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| Winter grazing his 120 ewes, mostly Welsh mules, helps thje process by producing short tussocky swards. |
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| Closedslot injection techniques are potentially very efficient but they do not work well on shallow, stony soils and, may also damage grass swards and increase the risk of soil erosion. |
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| In a three-year study, timothy-red clover and timothy swards were fertilized with composts derived from crop residue, dairy manure or sewage sludge, plus liquid dairy manure. |
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| Ian Pearson, an environment minister, said Britons must prepare to bid farewell to their lawns, as global warming is turning verdant swards into dried-up dust-bowls. |
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| Much better for the pastoralists are induced swards of Themeda. |
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| Seedlings of western gorse too, and grassier swards of fescues and hair-grasses, a scattering of sheep's sorrel and heath bedstraw. |
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| Ecological studies of the colonisation process could add to our understanding of how spore reproducing lichens colonise surfaces already covered by cryptogamic swards. |
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