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Sowing and Growing Wildflowers We’re getting plenty of questions about sowing and growing wildflower mixtures, and Spring (late March-May) is the ideal time, giving the ...
RESEARCH PROJECTS & TRIALS SARIC & NIAB Restoring Soil Quality Through the Reintegration of Leys and Sheep into Arable Rotation Aim: Many farms are reintroducing mixed ...
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 ...
Lester Lavington manages Chapel Pill Farm, near the River Avon, for the Alvis family, who are producers of the award-winning Lye Cross Cheese. Over 100 years ago the ...
Moving into spring the grass starts growing again, and that's the time to start getting your lawn into shape for the summer. OverseedingIf your lawn is looking a bit bare ...
In the last two weeks we have seen plenty of silage being cut. Local farmer and contractor Alan Smith cut Italian ryegrass on the 22nd May. The two year Italian ryegrass ley ...
Ruminal tympany, commonly known as bloat, is a digestive disorder of ruminants that occurs when the gas produced during normal rumination is trapped in the rumen and can not be ...
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 is a new land management scheme that aims to replace environmental stewardship (ELS & HLS), the English Woodland Grant Scheme and the Catchment Sensitive Farming ...
Sam visited G’s in Cambridgeshire to talk about Green Manures or Cover Crops last week, as part of the Soil Association’s Great Soils initiative. G’s is a family ...
A group of ornithologists and farmers met to discuss plans for Honeydale Farm this week at the start of a study to determine whether growing bird seed mixes together with ...
When areas of the country suffer a very dry spell, such as spring 2017, farmers maybe concerned about seed germination. To minimise the risk of crop failure, Ian ...
A silage or hay crop with grazing aftermath for dry, alkaline soils, there are few crops like sainfoin. It is a high-yielding, drought-resistant plant which needs no nitrogen ...
One Dorset farmer is reliant on legumes to ensure high forage ...
Listen to the webinar hosted by Ian Wilkinson, on how to make the most of cover crops and green manures, covering everything from when to sow, what equipment is needed to sow, ...
