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Stewardship Mixtures - Now is the Time! This is the perfect time to plant your Stewardship seed mixtures! We have a wide range of mixtures available - from Two Year Wild ...
Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a perennial mineral rich forage herb with an eye catching cornflower blue flower that has a long taproot capable of penetrating to great depth, ...
Where: West Wales Type: Wildlife & Conservation Size: 200 acres Soil Type: Varied neutral and acidic soils from peat to clay with some free-draining ...
We are running a variety of courses with the team at FarmED this spring and summer, all taking place at the fabulous learning space that is FarmED, ...
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 ...
To hold a seed in the palm of the hand is to hold a small future that is impossible to predict. Is the seed alive or is it dead? Will it germinate if it is given water, or is it ...
Suitable soils and optimum pH The ryegrass based leys are best suited on fertile and moisture retentive soils, ryegrass can suffer on drought prone soils, an option on dry land ...
Weed control is one of the biggest challenges when it comes to establishment and management of game cover and wild bird seed mixtures. These diverse mixes often contain ...
Suitable soils: Ryegrass is a shallow-rooted grass and should be grown on moisture-retentive soils that do not dry out. The target soil pH for ryegrass grass leys is slightly ...
Sainfoin leys should be considered to last four years or more. In this they are similar to Lucerne. However a proportion of the sainfoin will last considerably longer (up to 20 ...
Suitable soils and optimum pH Gravels and free-draining soils with a pH 6.5-8. When to sow Lucerne must be sown into warm soils and is often undersown to a spring cereal crop ...
Digging the Dirt is a Soil Association series of in-depth reports on farmers who are reaping the benefits of investing in their soil. (by Tim ...
Growing arable crops continuously can have a serious impact on soil condition. In these circumstances soil can lose structure and organic matter, becoming more compact and harder ...
Jonathan Boaz started experimenting with green manures as a way to to get something very beneficial out of a disaster, as he phrases, it. The disaster he refers to was the ...
