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‘Without soil, the arable farmer is nothing’, says John Farquharson, who farms Wolmore Farm, halfway between Bridgnorth and Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, in ...
A coastal farm that suffers from damp atmospheric conditions is not ideal for making hay, but Huw Jones, a fourth generation farmer in Cardigan, West Wales, has developed a ...
Vernon Bailey has farmed his land in Oxfordshire for fifty years but recently learned from a farmer who was working it back in the 1920s that one of the fields was historically ...
Farmer James Foote was prompted to contact us earlier this year after seeing our various discussions regarding herbal leys on social media. James farms near Truro in Cornwall and ...
Here Emmerich von Maltzahn from Oxfordshire talks about establishing a wildflower meadow on one of his fields. This three acre site, which was once arable land has taken over ...
Over the last two years Lord Willoughby de Broke has planted wild bird seed mixtures and nectar mixtures. Here he talks to us about his involvement in environmental schemes. Now ...
Creating a spectacular new wild flower meadow as part of a large garden which is open to the ...
Here John Rogers from Hereford describes his Pochon Persistent mixture and how he is able to achieve high yields with no artificial Nitrogen inputs. He regularly takes ...
This wildlife friendly farm has adopted a very long term approach to its soils. Caroline Corsie, a trained agronomist, is the manager and believes that farming starts from the ...
Dagan James is an organic farmer who mob-grazes Water Buffalo on his special herbal ley. Complex seed mixes have been grown on this farm in Stockbridge since 2004, starting ...
Here Sandy McFarland, a long time organic customer of Cotswold Seeds, explains his preference for the Lamins Ley and its benefits over ryegrass-only leys for his dairy ...
Tom and his family have been farming near Kings Lynn since the 1960s, having originally moved up from Hampshire. The farm is a mixed dairy and arable enterprise, based around a ...
Over 15 years of growing two year ryegrass silage leys, Greg Dancer has developed great insight into the many benefits of this crop. Greg farms a thousand acres in the ...
Here John Rogers from Hereford describes his Pochon Persistent mixture and how he is able to achieve high yields with no artificial Nitrogen inputs. He regularly takes four ...
When Mark Pilcher of Gear Farm, St Ives, Cornwall bought some land in October 1998 he was faced with a problem field close to an old dairy unit. Being next to the slurry pit it ...
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