No Till Crimper Roller Experiment 

  We have had numerous enquiries about using the No Till Crimper Roller method to terminate cover crops, and we learnt some important 'do's and 'don'ts' during our ...

Soil Farmer of the Year 2022 Shortlist Announced

Is it Warm Enough to Sow?

We get a lot of phone calls from eager customers early in the Spring season who are ready to sow their Cotswold Seeds but don't know whether soil is warm enough for germination to ...

Considering a Grass Reseed? Beware of Wireworms

We're receiving more and more questions from customers concerned about how to manage wireworms. Wireworms, the juvenile larvae of the click beetle (Elateridae) are a particular ...

Diverse Swards Equal Diverse Benefits

Fertiliser merchant, food manufacturer and vet all in ...

Correct pH is vital for maximum growth

As with any other crop, getting the pH right for grass and clovers is vital with the optimum pH for most grasses around pH 6.0 and for red and white clovers a little higher at ...

Pasture Promise - Cotswold Seeds and Complex Mixtures

Ian Wilkinson describes the benefits of complex seed mixtures and their importance in modern grassland ...

Special Pochon Grazing Mixture with Martyn Hebson

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 ...

First Hand Case Study: Fast and Vast for Silage with Peter Cheek

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 ...

Short Term, High Yield, Protein Rich Forage

There has been a sharp increase in the use of short term ley mixtures. Rapid in establishment and quick to produce bulk, these mixtures have become favourites for those producing ...

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Grassland

Becky Willson, Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit Project Officer Profitable and sustainable farming is the ultimate aim of any farm business.  Minimising the ...

First Hand: Cover Crops and Compost Teas with Paul Carre & Glyn Mitchell

Jersey suffers from high levels of pollution from intensive agriculture. Last year, in peak times of potato growing, nitrate levels reached double the EU limit of 50 mg per litre ...