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Ellen Baekelmans is one of two Doctoral Researchers who have been working with Cotswold Seeds as part of the LegumeLegacy project. Here, Ellen talks about her PhD research into ...
Linn Huser is one of two Doctoral Researchers who are working with Cotswold Seeds as part of the LegumeLegacy project. Here, Linn talks about her research into genetic diversity ...
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 ...
Ellen Baekelmans is one of two Doctoral Researchers who are working with Cotswold Seeds as part of the LegumeLegacy project. We asked each of the Doctoral ...
The 2015 ‘Year of Soil’ saw a renewed interest in green manures and fertility building species often known as green crops, and also renewed flexibility regarding ...
Legumes help sustain soil fertility but the plant is only half the ...
This 350 acre farm in Little Salkeld, near Penrith, is a particularly challenging corner of land, with much of it fronting a river which regularly floods, making ploughing ...
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 ...
The first edition of CHCx3 Insights, the newsletter of the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping, or ‘CHCx3’ for short, feaatures a wealth of info. * Stuart ...
When the clocks go back, officially bringing British summertime to an end, you may think it’s too late to sow for forage for next year - but it’s not. You can ...
Red Clover is one of the most popular true clovers in the UK. Once established it’s capable of rapid growth and shows reasonably good persistence up to ...
When winter barley crops are ready for harvest is the perfect time to start making plans for the Autumn. Choose a seed mixture that will fit into your rotation, be it an over ...
Farm Type: Mixed Location: Northumberland Size: Approx 1000 Acres Soil Type: Mixed Mixes Used: Legume & Herb Rich Swards Changing an intensive system to ...
Buttercups are probably one the most well known and easily recognisable meadow plants in the UK. There are many different types of buttercup, from the more well known Meadow, ...
Sam and Lizzie will be at the NSA Sheep Event tomorrow, at the Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire. It’s the flagship event of the National Sheep Association ...
