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The lastest issue of LegumeLegacy is out now! Including field updates, news from doctoral researchers on academic secondments and a feature on 'Investigating Nitrogen ...
The latest LegumeLegacy newsletter features updates on the LegumeLegacy training event in Poland, a progress report from Sophia Philadelphi’s field excursion and lab ...
Silage Analysis for Dairy Cattle; Getting the Most out of your Grass Dry matter (DM) represents the proportion of total components remaining after water has been removed. ...
Herbal leys are great for providing increased forage availability through late spring, summer and autumn when simple grass leys may drop off; their inclusion of deeper rooting ...
This article considers whether farmers should grow cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata) on dry soils as an alternative to ryegrass. Ian Wilkinson, Managing Director of Cotswold Seeds ...
Soil health expert, Niels Corfield, has been observing and monitoring two hundred farms across the UK, and what he has seen has convinced him that problems caused by ...
Planting an area of woodland is a great way to increase the variety of habitats on an area of land and we are seeing more woodland areas being planted on farmland through grant ...
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 ...
Paul Totterdell is in London today, attending the Sustainable Forages for Net-Zero in Livestock Production conference, organised by SCI, a global innovation hub where science ...
Never in recent memory has it been more important to find a way to make livestock profitable. Cotswold Seeds considers this problem and suggests that a lower cost of forage ...
If there is one man who’s inspired and influenced the work of Cotswold Seeds and guided the company’s product development it’s Frank Newman Turner, (1913 – ...
In the face of a marked decline in the number of wild flower meadows across the UK, many are choosing to recreate these spectacular shows of native floral species. Wild flower ...
Suitable soils These mixes are suitable for most soil types where the pH is 5.5 or above. When to sow Sow between March and early May, or August and late ...
Mike Adams totally changed his farming system after attending the Herbal Ley Establishment and Management course at FarmED, run in partnership with Cotswold Seeds. Mike farms 305 ...
Suitable soils Pollen and nectar mixes are best sited on light to medium soils that are free draining, not north facing and have a pH of 6.0 to 8.0. Heavier soils will favour the ...
