As a result, copses and covers stud the agricultural landscape, and these places are full of wildlife.

At this time of year an agricultural landscape reveals its workings.

At this time of the year we get used to the golden plover (pictured, winter plumage) as a species en masse, in stolidly bunched flocks in agricultural landscape.

In the developing world, where fertilisers are often beyond the reach of poor farmers, it could transform the agricultural landscape.

There have been dramatic changes to farming and the agricultural landscape, particularly in the last century.