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Enhance your Pasture

Enhance your Pasture

Many equine owners use agricultural land, perhaps previously grazed by livestock.  Equine owners may typically receive advice in relation to pasture and grassland management from agricultural advisors, where fattening livestock is the aim.

Rye glass flowing in the wind

For equines, a rich diet of rye grass can generate a number of health problems, including obesity.

So to enhance grasslands, focus upon reducing rye grass species and encouraging a characteristic mixed species (species-rich) sward.

Purple wildflowers in the grass

Happily this change favours both horse-health and landscape character.

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