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| | Field Boundaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | For the purposes of this Action Plan, the term 'field boundaries' refers to arable field margins and to boundary structures such as hedgerows, field drains, main drainage channels, sandstone walls and road verges. |
 | | Estimating average field size to be 12ha, there are about 400,000km of cereal field edge in the UK. |
 | | An Action Plan for Cereal Field Margins is included in the UK Steering Group Report (1995), aiming to maintain and enhance 15,000 ha of cereal field margins at a cost of £1.1million per annum in 2000, rising to £2.1million per annum in 2010. |
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