A biodegradable material produced from a sustainable farming system, corks are to be encouraged.

Locals fear that splitting the property could jeopardise a historic farming system.

And as part of a mixed farming system, clover-rich pastures provide a non-chemical way of building up fertility on crop land.

In earlier years, livestock were often considered part of the forest farming system.

As the major estates transformed, a new economic grouping, the gentry, became evident, many of them benefiting from the opportunities of the farming system.