Farm Walk at Honeydale

A FarmED Team Reflection on ORFC Global 2021

 

Cotswold Seeds Customer Days @FarmED

Last month a group of Cotswold Seeds customers came to FarmED for a socially distanced farm walk to learn more about the benefits of regenerative agriculture. They heard ...

College Links

Cotswold Seeds MD, Ian Wilkinson, studied Farm and Grassland Management at BCA Maidenhead, where he also met his wife, Celene and spent a year as Student President under ...

Species of the Week: Milvus Red Clover

Species of the Week: Milvus Red Clover has very good persistence. The Swiss plant breeders have used the Matenklee or mountain type Red Clover as a parent and have bred a ...

Advice for Spring - Herbal Leys & May Hay Making!

This period of warm, settled weather has created a window for hay making. But while it’s always a relief to get hay in the barn in dry conditions, early cutting can come ...

Species of the Week: Red Clover

  Red Clover  is one of the most popular true clovers in the UK. Once established it’s capable of rapid growth and shows reasonably good persistence up to ...

**NEW First Hand Case Study: Herbal Grazing Leys with John Cherry

John Cherry, a fourth generation farmer, is one of the founders of Groundswell - the no till and regenerative agriculture show, which advocates no tillage. This policy also ...

**NEW First Hand Case Study: Red and White Clover Leys with Tim Peachey

Tim Peachey’s father started farming at Donkeywell Farm in 1971, converting to organic in 1992, since then clover leys have played an important role in their farming ...

**NEW First Hand Case Study: Fast and Vast for Silage with Peter Cheek

First Hand: Cover Crops and Compost Teas with Paul Carre & Glyn Mitchell

Jersey suffers from high levels of pollution from intensive agriculture. Last year, in peak times of potato growing, nitrate levels reached double the EU limit of 50 mg per litre ...

**NEW First Hand Case Study: Pochon Persistent with Stuart Hammond

Stuart Hammond is a third generation farmer, and his family have been using Cotswold Seeds’ Pochon Persistent ley for over two decades with impressive results and ...

**NEW First Hand Case Study: Special Herbal Ley with Martin Chatfield

Martin Chatfield, at Crossways Farm, describes himself as an accidental farmer, who started farming ‘by mistake’ after he bought some chickens. That was nearly forty ...

**NEW First Hand Case Study: Quick Bulk Westerwolds with Richard Bown

Richard Bown is a third generation farmer, and his family are third generation Cotswold Seeds’ customers. Richard farms at Northfield Farm, near Upton on Severn, with his ...

NEW Case Study: Haylage with Mark Jervis

Mark Jervis works as part of A.M Jervis & Son, his family’s business which produces high quality haylage for the horse market under the brand EquiGrass. They supply ...

Julian Gold Announced as the Winner of the 2019 Soil Farmer of the Year

Congratulations to Julian Gold, who has won the award for Soil Farmer of the Year, organised by the Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit (FCCT) and Innovation for Agriculture (IfA) and ...

Considering Brassica Crops for 2019?

How to Control Moss in Lawns

The 2018 drought has caused a moss invasion in many lawns across the UK, which needs addressing this year. During one of the driest summers on record, with temperatures reaching ...

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