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The length of time from the beginning of development to the death of a plant is called its life span. The life cycle, on the other hand, is the sequence of stages a plant goes ...
Suitable Soils These mixtures will grow on most soils, ryegrass based mixtures will suit more mositure retentive soils Sowing Rate Grass based surface mixtures have a ...
Suitable soils and pH Most herb and legume species can be sown on sand, loam or clay soils with a ph above 5.6. However sainfoin and lucerne should only be sown on free draining ...
Suitable Soils The key to successful overseeding is to reduce the competition from the existing sward as much as possible, before introducing the new seeds. Sowing in warm ...
Farmers about to harvest whole crop silage can consider drilling lucerne at this time of year. With whole crop being clamped this month there is a window of opportunity ...
Farmers, academics and seed merchants - including Cotswold Seeds - are brought together in a new video explaining the benefits of species-rich pasture. These ...
Mr. Cornwallis of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire describes his sytem for using a Cotswold Seeds Herbal Ley as ...
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 ...
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 ...
Although lucerne is mainly used as a crop to produce hay or silage, it may in some cases be grazed in the autumn with sheep or cows. Sheep in Oxfordshire (pictured here) are ...
Many farmers are increasingly concerned about which forage crops to plant to withstand lack of rain. However, for farmers on dry, neutral or alkaline soils lucerne could ...
There are many different types of pest or disease that can destroy or affect the output of a crop, if not managed ...
A lot of the work we do at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and Innovation Farm is about understanding and improving the genetics of different plant varieties to ...
When Mark Pilcher of Gear Farm, St Ives, Cornwall bought some land in October 1998 he was faced with a problem field close to an old dairy unit. Being next to the slurry pit it ...
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 ...
