{"id":1223,"date":"2023-10-12T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:44:28","slug":"grazing-ecology-rewilding-english-longhorn-cattle-in-sherwood-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Grazing Ecology: Rewilding English Longhorn Cattle in Sherwood Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em;text-align: center\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1024\" data-original-width=\"1536\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgAzhyphenhyphenrtkw3VI4UZeFkPcw7gzmMEzy8Bl2QnZJcze0gKXN2YlFAQcNFipGccP8OXDpDtvo_gxd9P2LcG_VZw1SUi4Wvbrgx0gRCi1TvP82kS7y-MbXwEirEnC5MwmzX7AgeCAdbuEK5IbBV9RMEroz5gB1XHgEgOoGkBSJY1-Q3a4v6hf4W9WoIqoHtfUpb\/w571-h380\/9.jpg\" width=\"571\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&#8220;Grazing ecology is the battle between vegetative succession and animal disturbance.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">(Source:&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.video.search.yahoo.com\/search\/video?fr=mcafee&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;p=english+long+horn+farm&amp;type=E211GB714G0#id=2&amp;vid=06442f36f049e0b985075cf3d098249e&amp;action=click\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">https:\/\/uk.video.search.yahoo.com\/search\/video?fr=mcafee&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;p=english+long+horn+farm&amp;type=E211GB714G0#id=2&amp;vid=06442f36f049e0b985075cf3d098249e&amp;action=click<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">(Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitsherwood.co.uk\/nature-at-sherwood\/bigger-beasts\/\">https:\/\/www.visitsherwood.co.uk\/nature-at-sherwood\/bigger-beasts\/<\/a>)<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEguNKHXzZTuR4_NELh5v4AsFBpsvwYWYqoKAADpE4tLUKpJtRhXpy2OLw0s3PkAmp4iQ4pCKU8C-q_KH78O78eyHVfzlxDG-lnyBcAIZbUZtun8WnJFYoLmKI_rtF6dtIjF_0ih-MoWHK4vRFtqXd7RSZQXMJPPRjJbyIz-ErWGwtxI7wUjtvEf4Dahid6M\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEguNKHXzZTuR4_NELh5v4AsFBpsvwYWYqoKAADpE4tLUKpJtRhXpy2OLw0s3PkAmp4iQ4pCKU8C-q_KH78O78eyHVfzlxDG-lnyBcAIZbUZtun8WnJFYoLmKI_rtF6dtIjF_0ih-MoWHK4vRFtqXd7RSZQXMJPPRjJbyIz-ErWGwtxI7wUjtvEf4Dahid6M\" width=\"400\"><br \/>\n  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A Nottinghamshire farming business is using native cattle and sheep to balance profitable food production and ancient landscape management.<\/p>\n<p>Thoresby Estate has an arable area stretching 30 miles top to bottom and a livestock enterprise managing multiple breeds in a variety of landscapes \u2013 including woodland that was part of the original Sherwood Forest.<\/p>\n<p>The Estate aims to balance the farm and the land harmoniously to benefit the environment and the business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can tick a lot of boxes, with something working for the arable, livestock and the environment we manage, that\u2019s what we are trying to achieve,\u201d says farm manager Will Baker.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">(Source:&nbsp;<\/span><font face=\"arial\">https:\/\/www.fwi.co.uk\/livestock\/grassland-management\/why-ruminants-are-key-to-managing-farms-ancient-landscapes)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Contacted Thorsby Park Farm Estate to see if I can forage some fur.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">Spoke to secretary of the UK Long Horn Cattle Association who advised contacting herd managers and abertoirs to try and get hair\/ horns. How do I do this ethically?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grazing ecology is the battle between vegetative succession and animal disturbance.&#8221; (Source:&nbsp;https:\/\/uk.video.search.yahoo.com\/search\/video?fr=mcafee&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;p=english+long+horn+farm&amp;type=E211GB714G0#id=2&amp;vid=06442f36f049e0b985075cf3d098249e&amp;action=click) (Source:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.visitsherwood.co.uk\/nature-at-sherwood\/bigger-beasts\/) A Nottinghamshire farming business is using native cattle and sheep to balance profitable food production and ancient landscape management. Thoresby Estate has an arable area stretching 30 miles top to bottom and a livestock enterprise managing multiple breeds in a variety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}