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NARRATOR

The farm has to monitor the number of corn cockles they have year on year. And that's where the volunteers come in. They're going to start counting.

WOMAN

Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for coming along on your Sunday. We're going to do some corn cockle counting today.

WOMAN

You count yours first, then on your corner.

WOMAN

One--

NARRATOR

The method is to divide the ground randomly into 5 metre squares. Count the corn cockles, work out the average. And from that, estimate the total in the field--

WOMAN

Good job. You know what I'm doing. So 13. That was 21 then, wasn't it?

NARRATOR

--while trying not to be distracted by the marathon going through the public footpath. And how many corn cockles are there? About 5,000.