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The article presents information on the "North American Breeding Bird Survey," and includes information about the reviewer, librarian and bird watcher Henry T. Armistead.

Expanding markets are set to soak up the expected higher bean harvest in 2020 and prevent a tumble in prices that bean growers faced after a bumper bean crop in 2017. Lewis Cottey, pulse trader at ADM Agriculture and president of trade body Pulses UK, says although the winter bean area is likely to be down, a spring bean area rise is likely to lead to an overall bigger bean crop. [Extracted from the article]

Alison Cross is the 2019 Farmers Weekly Farm Adviser of the Year. Alison has encouraged some farmers into environmental schemes and says she has never had a farmer tell her they have lost money on any scheme. Corn buntings like spring cereals and open landscapes, and so Alison has looked to survey bird numbers and then encouraged farmers to create a landscape where they can thrive. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on a bird survey of Great Britain farmland and its participation in the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's (GWCT) second Big Farmland Bird Count. Topics discussed include views of Jim Egan from GWCT's project, on red-listed species of birds, views of Guy Smith, vice-president of National Farmers' Union, on its support to the GWCT bird survey, and views of Ian Dillon, manager of Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire, England, on changes in farming practices due to thses trends.

The article focuses on the Big Farmland Bird Count, a survey of farmland birds in Great Britain (GB) to be led by the GB-based charity Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) from February 7-15, 2015. It mentions birds such as crows, goldfinches, and starlings that will be counted during the survey, and also reports that the survey will help to demonstrate benefits of bird management schemes in GB. Comments from Jim Egan of GWCT are also presented.

The article focuses on the Big Farmland Bird Count, a survey of farmland birds in Great Britain (GB) to be led by the GB-based charity Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) from February 7-15, 2015. It reports that more than 1,400 farmers have signed up for the survey, and further mentions that the survey will help farmers to record effect of schemes such as growing wild bird seed crops and game cover, on farmland birds. Comments from Jim Egan of GWCT are also presented.

Reports on the partnership of the British Trust for Ornithology, English Nature, the British Forestry Commission and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to launch a Great Britain-wide survey to estimate the population of the nocturnal bird nightjar. Task that is asked of surveyors to estimate the number of occupied nesting sites; Factors that led to the decline in the range and number of nightjars.