Thanks! NE Scotland got off lightly, generally don’t get too hammered from the south or west as we’re hiding behind the cairngorms!!

Oh lawks 🙄

Looks like some good resources already - have you seen this one

britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...

…and is a one of the deep levers of transformation for sustainability as set out by Dave Abson et al (2017)….building on the work of Donella Meadows 40-50 years ago.

“Stuff like "less livestock" is fairly obvious.” Whoah there…is it? Because there’s plenty of us showing that a whole pile of assumptions made about livestock are incorrect…so I’m not convinced at how obvious this is.

Ah no - up the road from there, Wye Valley. Mostly maize and wheat/barley.

Agree with that Simon. Get it under grass AND get the grazing management right.

Grass has huge benefits for flood mitigation.

We need waaaay less bare soil exposed in these more challenging rain events during autumn/winter.

What are the main blockers to practice change that will keep more soil in-field? It’s an expensive thing to lose. 2/2