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Dorset Council plans to buy dairy farm for rewilding - Farmers Weekly(www.fwi.co.uk)

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Dorset Council, supported by Natural England, is pressing ahead with plans to buy a dairy farm for a rewilding project.

In a statement, the council said part of Middle Farm, in Higher Kingcombe, is being used as a dairy farm which is “not ideal” as it suffers from run-off and erosion as it is managed “intensively”.

With the support of Natural England, the council wants to buy the farm and change its use of land for woodland or rewilding.

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Great news! Good to see that this council has the means to do that

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Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
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Apparently there used to be a lot of farms owned by councils and let out to farmers.

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