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Re-introduce lost biology back into your soil by using 'Beneficial Soil Microbes'. Healthy soils require key pioneer microbe species in order to support maximum plant ...
RESEARCH PROJECTS & TRIALS SARIC & NIAB Restoring Soil Quality Through the Reintegration of Leys and Sheep into Arable Rotation Aim: Many farms are reintroducing mixed ...
SARIC DiverseForages Project trial at our Centre for Diverse Farming Aim: To determine which level of forage plant species diversity provides the best forage, together with ...
Fennel planted alongside maize, hopefully to attract partridge. Also looking to see if the fennel strip can be topped for weed management and left in for a second ...
Ian Wilkinson attended an Innovative Farmers field lab at Purton House yesterday, investigating the potential for buckwheat, and other crops, to reduce couch grass infestations. ...
Five members of the Cotswold Seeds team have just completed a three day intensive course on soil microbiology, looking at everything, from the importance of soil microorganisms, ...
Anthelmintic plants are basically natural wormers. Worms or gastrointestinal nematodes, in small ruminants and cattle can cause disease and lead to production and economic ...
Scott Laidlaw has received the British Grassland Society award for his outstanding contribution to the understanding of grassland management. He is currently working at The ...
The soil is one of our most precious resources. It is the medium in which we grow our food, and it is home to a multitude of organisms whose activity is vital to crop growth. ...
Trials at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester (Gloucestershire) and by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Hampshire) have indicated the higher yield potential ...
Arable farming is more profitable with grass leys in the rotation. So says Dr Lindsay Easson of the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland. In Northern ...
Legumes help sustain soil fertility but the plant is only half the ...
The effect on carcass and meat ...
BBC ‘Countryfile’ programme carried a feature about how the emergence of drug-resistant worms is posing a severe threat to sheep farming in the UK and quoted the ...
As the four-year-long LegumePlus project comes to a close, highlights of the key findings are now available, in advance of the dissemination event to be held in October ...
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