Join us for a one day course on Herbal Leys Establishment and Management brought to you by the FarmED team and Cotswolds Seeds. Time & Location November 18th, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM FarmED, Station Rd, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton, OX7 6BJ   About the ...

Our annual supply of organic rye has now arrived in the warehouse. We take delivery of rye just once a year and there’s always a high demand as it’s a firm favourite with customers for use as an overwinter green manure cover crop. The seed leaves our warehouse almost as soon as it ...

  This Hay & Graze mix was sown in autumn 2020 using discs to create a seed bed after harvest and sown with an air seeder, before rolling twice. The mix provided winter grazing followed by a fertiliser application in mid-March of 60kgs of nitrogen plus sulphur. It was cut in early June ...

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 winter green manure crop, or the introduction of a permanent pasture. Over Winter green manure crops help accumulate ...

When harvest is complete, planning when new leys are drilled is crucial over the following weeks. With legumes very sensitive to temperature, the sooner any seed mixtures containing clovers can be drilled the better. Early frosts have caught some farmers out in recent years, so it is advisable to ...