CULTIVATION Please choose one ADMINISTRATION AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS COMMUNICATIONS CONFLICT CULTIVATION ENCLOSURES ENERGY EXTRACTION FLOODING GRAZINGS HOUSING KNOWLEDGE LEISURE MANUFACTURE PERCEPTION SETTLEMENTS TRADES Spade cultivation Gardens Rigs and fields Forestry and other first ploughing 'Scots prairie', near Elgin, Moray A landscape formerly divided into fields, with hedges or stone dykes, has been thrown open with their removal. The cultivation of land, year in, year out, without the presence of livestock means that field boundaries are no longer needed. Large fields also allow easier operation of large implements. Any improvement in efficiency is offset by the loss of habitat which such changes entail; balks (uncultivated edges), dykes and hedges all provide refuge for plants and animals in an increasingly intensively cultivated landscape. Resource pack   1     2     3     4