Case Studies

Case Study: Drought Resistant Herbal Leys with Lyn Cornwallis

Mr. Cornwallis of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire describes how drought tolerance among other benefits can be achieved using complex seed ...

Case Study: Caroline Corsie - Soil Improving Green Manure Cover Crops

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 ...

Case Study: Soil Improving Herbal Ley for Water Buffalo with Dagan James

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, ...

Case study: Green Manures for veg with Adam Webb

One of the UK's largest salad and vegetable growing companies use green manures to improve soils and boost ...

Case Study: Green Manures with Jonathan Boaz

Jonathan Boaz started experimenting with green manures as a way to ‘to get something very beneficial out of a disaster,’ as he phrases, it. The disaster he refers to was the ...

Case Study: Vetch and cereals with John Rogers

John Rogers from Hereford describes his use of vetches sown alongside various cereals to produce a high quality, high yielding cutting ...

Case Study: Permanent Horse Pasture with Chris Burdett

Chris Burdett from Kirtlington Stud has bred world champions and derby winners on his Permanent Horse Pasture and has been using this mixture since 2005 with great success. ...

Case Study: Rob Richmond Grazing mix/no Ryegrass

On some soils, particularly free draining ones, ryegrass does not yield well. One farmer has found a mix that meets all his needs without using this ...

Case study: Herbal Leys for Foggage with Lyn Cornwallis

Mr. Cornwallis, a mixed farmer from Oxfordshire, describes his sytem for using a Cotswold Seeds Herbal Ley as foggage.  Mr. Cornwallis, was found by the Farm Business ...

Case Study: Henry Edmunds - Vetches As Forage

Vetches are often used as an addition to a forage mixture to dramatically boost short term yield.  In this video Henry Edmunds explains how he has used vetches to improve ...

Case Study: Philip Culley - Lamins Leys with Phillip Culley

Thornage Hall is a unique type of farm with a particular function. It is run by the Camphill Community Charity as a centre that offers meaningful work to ...

Case Study: Dr Lydia Smith talks about Sainfoin

A lot of the work we do at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and Innovation Farm is about understanding and improving the genetics of different plant varieties to ...

Case Study: Rob Allan - farming 'wildlife'

Name: Rob AllanFarm Type: Mixed, mainly arableLocation: WarwickshireSize: 2000 acresSoil Type: Ironstone and heavy clayMixes Used: Operation Pollinator and tailormade bird food ...

Case Study: Two Year Ryegrass & Timothy Ley with Michael North

Michael North took over the 200 acre farm in Oddington in Oxfordshire from his father and now farms it with his son. It’s gone through several significant changes during ...

Special Pochon Grazing Mixture with Martyn Hebson

This 350 acre farm in Little Salkeld, near Penrith, is a particularly challenging corner of land, with much of it fronting a river which regularly floods, making ploughing ...

Case Study: Dual Purpose Mix with Edward Cook

Edward Cook relies purely on bespoke grass mixtures to fatten his lambs throughout the summer, and to produce enough good quality silage to continue fattening sheep and lambs in ...

Case Study: Maximum D-Value w/clover with Philip Langton

Soil is vital capital on any farm and most farmers understand the need to look after it’s health, but for sheep farmer Philip Langton there’s an added ...

Case Study: Herbal Leys with Yeo Valley Farmers

Jon Wilson is Farms Manager at Holt Farms, the Yeo Valley Family Farm, which provides milk to Yeo Valley to produce their well-known range of dairy products. ‘Our aim is ...

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