28 Feb 2025

Farmer rapt with edible bale netting

From Country Life, 7:22 pm on 28 February 2025

Plastic free paddocks have become a reality thanks to Grant Lightfoot. The Orepuke deer farmer, who invented a non-polluting baleage wrap that animals can eat, has just received his first shipment of plant fibre bale netting from India.

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