Since the Allerton Project started in 1992, agricultural have shifted toward combining the need for food security with environmental objectives. The project has played a key role in influencing this policy through its own farm business and research activities.

Game management has been shown to have beneficial effects on other wildlife through habitat management, predator control and supplementary feeding in winter. For example, abundance of many bird species has soared.

Habitats have been developed and created in the noncropped area to benefit a range of terrestrial wildlife, while measures to improve water quality and aquatic wildlife have been developed within and outside the cropped area.

The results of our research are used to influence agri-environmental policy at national level, and practice at the individual farm level through our demonstration work.

Visitors to the project include policy makers, regulators, farmers, advisors, students and increasingly schools. We have a number of initiatives that involve the local community in improving our shared understanding of agri-environmental issues and wider community impacts on the agricultural environment.

The Allerton Project is a combination of commercial farming, research, demonstration and community engagement. This provides an exceptional opportunity to integrate agricultural and environmental objectives that are scientifically sound and practically grounded.

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