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A mixture of information, news & case studies
The mixture of sunshine and rain has been bringing on a lot of crops… Second Year Hard Horse Hay Second year Hard Horse Hay mix enjoying some sunshine ...
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 ...
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 ...
Peter Cheek is Farm Manager at Godminster Farm, on the outskirts of Bruton in Somerset. The farm is owned by Richard Hollingsworth and milk is sold to make the well-known Wyke ...
The No Till Crimper Roller is standard farm machinery in arable America but as far as we are aware our experiment at Honeydale Farm this weekend is among the first times that one ...
This week has seen a number of questions from customers about fodder beet - a crop that can be described as between a sugar beet and a mangold. This crop was once ...
Watch, in full, a webinar for farmers, presented by Ian Wilkinson. In the webinar we look at using deep-rooting, diverse herbal leys as a way to combat some of the problems we ...
Mr. Cornwallis of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire describes his sytem for using a Cotswold Seeds Herbal Ley as ...
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 ...
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 ...
One farmer's story of using root crops to provide winter forage on marginal ...
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. ...
There is a record of sainfoin being imported into England from France in 1652. From this time onwards it became widely grown in certain areas mainly the Cotswolds, Salisbury plain ...
When you farm at 1000ft. on dry Cotswold Brash the great view doesn’t always compensate for the lack of grass. Russell Keepence knows this only too well, with an ...
We’ve been involved in two local events this week. Last Thursday we were invited to The Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water, for a Food & Farming day, part of Open ...
