With ongoing concerns about the shortage of forage this winter, it’s worth taking advantage of opportunities to fill the winter forage gap and begin building up forage stocks as a buffer for the coming months. A positive outcome of the very wet winter and exceptionally hot and dry spring ...

Ian Wilkinson attended an Innovative Farmers field lab at Purton House yesterday, investigating the potential for buckwheat, and other crops, to reduce couch grass infestations.  Couch is a real problem for low input farming systems. Buckwheat is a fast growing plant used as a cover crop to ...

Our customers have posted some interesting observations on Twitter over the past few weeks. At the beginning of July, a third generation sheep and arable farmer from Hill Farm in Warwickshire reported on Twitter that ‘Herbal leys are the only thing left growing on our farm. Proving how deep ...

You should have received the latest issue of our Broadcast newsletter by now, which features an introduction to our new website. We know from talking to customers that people value the wealth of knowledge offered by our technical advisors, as well as our specialist and bespoke mixtures, and the ...

Many of our customers have been urgently requesting organic stubble turnips and we’re pleased to say we will be taking delivery of these later this week. If you are going to require organic stubble turnips this season and have not yet placed your order, we’d advise you do so as soon as ...