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Winter bird food mixtures

These diverse mixtures will provide foraging sites for invertebrates such as bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies throughout the late spring and summer as well as providing valuable habitat for farmland birds such as yellowhammers.

Sown into a warm, moist seedbed in late spring or summer the established mixture will produce flowers throughout the late spring and summer months providing valuable source of pollen and nectar.

The tussocky grasses will also provide a valuable over wintering habitat for invertebrates and small mammals.

Agrovista 1 year winter bird food mixture

Sowing window

March - June

SFI/CSS compatibility

AHL2, CAHL2, AB9

Sowing rate

40kg/ha

Sowing depth

15-20mm

Pack size

20kg

Mixture information

Spring triticale, spring barley, spring wheat, quinoa, gold of pleasure, dwarf sunflower

Agrovista 2 year winter bird food mixture

Sowing window

March - June

SFI/CSS compatibility

AHL2, CAHL2, AB9

Sowing rate

40kg/ha

Sowing depth

15-20mm

Pack size

20kg

Mixture information

Spring triticale, spring barley, spring wheat, kale, gold of pleasure, stubble turnip, white millet, red millet, perennial chicory, green fennel

Agrovista Take-all break winter bird food mixture

Sowing window

March - June

SFI/CSS compatibility

AHL2, CAHL2, AB9

Sowing rate

35kg/ha

Sowing depth

15-20mm

Pack size

20kg

Mixture information

Linseed, spring oats, quinoa, gold of pleasure, dwarf sunflower, white millet, red millet, forage rape

Agrovista 2 year late sown winter bird food mixture

Sowing window

July - September

SFI/CSS compatibility

AHL2, CAHL2, AB9

Sowing rate

40kg/ha

Sowing depth

15-20mm

Pack size

20kg

Mixture information

Winter barley, winter wheat, winter linseed, phacelia, buckwheat, stubble turnip, kale, perennial chicory, green fennel

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