These highly successful leys have been produced to provide grazing livestock with high quality nutrition whilst also meeting the requirements of the GS4 countryside stewardship scheme and the SFI SAM3 herbal leys action.
With that in mind these leys are principally aimed at livestock producers rather than arable farmers looking to build soil structure and fertility whilst taking advantage of the scheme payments. However, arable producers wanting to optimise income from letting grazing to sheep producers may also benefit from the higher quality of these swards.
SFI/CSS compatibility
| Arable crops |
Temp crops |
Horticultural |
Non horticultural |
Improved |
Low input |
| SAM 3 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
|
| GS4 |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
|
The seed mixtures have been designed to be compatible with a range of actions within the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) and the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). However, these mixtures are no guarantee of compliance and should therefore be grown and managed in a way that can be reasonably expected to meet the aims of the action.