Grain maize stubble
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Grain maize stubble
Image: © Rodney Burton Taken: 4 Mar 2008
On sandy soils of the Cuckney Series, typical brown sands, the residue of maize harvested for grain, rather than for forage, affords protection from rain impact on the surface on these easily eroded soils. The view is from a 4° slope, NNW towards Sunnymead on Blackhorse Lane.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.732475
Longitude
-3.455181