Bourton Manor Farm

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Bourton Manor Farm

• How big is it?
• What type of farming?
• What is the end result?

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Bourton Manor Farm
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How long?
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5 kilometres
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How wide?
1 kilometre
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How do we measure land area?

Hectare
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What does that mean?
100 metres

100 metres
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Size of the farm
926 football pitches
496 hectares
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Type of farming

• Beef
• Arable

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How the land is used
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How the land is used

• Wheat
• Barley
• Oats
• Oilseed Rape
• Beans
• Fallow

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How the land is used

• Hay
• Grazing
• Conservation

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How the land is used
Other

• Conservation
• Public paths
• Buildings

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What we get from crops
Wheat
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What we get from crops
Oats
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What we get from crops
Oilseed Rape (Canola)
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• Assurance through standards and inspection of
• Growing and harvesting
• Hygiene
• Best practice to protect air, soil and water

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What we get from cattle
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What we get from cattle
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Waste not want not
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• Assurance through standards and inspection of
• Welfare
• Looking after the countryside
• Approved abattoir

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Bourton Manor Farm

• How big is it
• What type of farming
• What is the end result
• Any questions?

• 926 football pitches

• Arable and beef cattle

• Food and products