A mixture of information, news & case studies
This month's newsletter from the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping (CHCx3) newsletter is full of news and views, including: * An editorial from Stuart Knight, ...
Herbal Ley Establishment & Management Discover the benefits of introducing herbal leys into your rotation with this one day course, and leave feeling confident in your ...
Congratulations to David Newman & Tracy Russell, the winners of this year’s Soil Farmer of the Year award, which was announced last week at Groundswell. David & ...
Milvus red clover is a European variety (developed in Switzerland. It has been bred from Matenklee cultivars, which has historically been bred for longevity and ...
ELS and HLS sewardship agreements cover 2.5 million hectares and there are around 14,000 English farmers with ELS agreements. DEFRA has provided some £400 million to fund ...
We're receiving more and more questions from customers concerned about how to manage wireworms. Wireworms, the juvenile larvae of the click beetle (Elateridae) are a particular ...
Where: West Wales Type: Wildlife & Conservation Size: 200 acres Soil Type: Varied neutral and acidic soils from peat to clay with some free-draining ...
Here at Cotswold Seeds we have seen an increasing volume of enquiries about creating a durable grass cover for large scale solar parks. Some of these solar parks have an existing ...
At this time of year it is not unusual to receive calls regarding the management of autumn sown grass leys, usually a light autumn graze, plus some colder winter weather is ...
Young ryegrass/red clover leys that were sown in the autumn can look like they are nitrogen deficient in their first spring. Some farmers opt to apply N fertiliser in early April ...
Richard and Jo Cuzens at Littleton Cheney in Dorset kindly sent in these images. Following an Italian ryegrass silage mix the field was sown in August 2019 with a ...
A high yielding, tough mixture which gives excellent hay and haylege and is expected to provide grazing for up to five ...
Suitable soils and optimum pH These mixes are designed for light, free-draining land with a pH of 5.6-7. When to sow Sow between late March and early September. Late ...
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 ...
Rye (Secale cereale) also known as grazing or cereal rye, is one of the most effective crops for reducing N leaching over the winter. It grows quickly in the autumn making it one ...