 After a great deal of damage had been done, it was agreed to fence off small areas of the land for cultivation.The value of the ploughing-up experiment had been largely lost and an enormous amount of much needed food had gone to waste.Undeterred, Lord Iveagh obtained permission from the War Office to cultivate portions of the requisitioned lands that were hardly used and by the end of the war had regained much of the lost ground – which was successfully cropped.