NFU to survey its members about problem of fly-grazing
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) wants its members to alert it to problems they face with fly-grazing on their land.
Members reported cases at an NFU council meeting on 26 June.
They included a farmer who had 2,500 horses left on his land and another who was leaving the countryside stewardship scheme because his 15-metre field margins were being used by fly-grazers.
NFU president Peter Kendall said the NFU would survey its members about the nuisance.
This news story was first published in the current issue of H&H (5 July 2012)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.