In partnership with other Oxfordshire farms, we’re conducting an experiment over the next few months to determine the best way to provide food to support farmland birds during the winter hungry gap. We’re comparing the effectiveness of growing wild bird plant mixtures, compared to ...

Ian leading a practical workshop fo FWAG South West at Rhode Farm Bridgewater on the benefits of winter covercrops.  Sown just before or after the combine, our Winter Warmer super quick mix covers the soil, fixes N while the weather is warm and picksup N that would otherwise be washed ...

Ian is leading a practical workshop for FWAG South West next week,looking at the benefits of cover crops. It will take place on the morning of Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 10am-1pm at Rhode Farm, Rhode, Bridgwater, TA5 2AD.   Ian will be joined by resource protection specialist Jo Oborn and ...

Congratulations to our valued customer Jonathan Boaz who has won the prestigious  Arable Innovator of the Year Award, for his use of green manures and composting to improve soil organic matter on his Worcestershire farm. The awards are organised by British Media Agriculture, owners of the ...

BBC ‘Countryfile’ programme carried a feature about how the emergence of drug-resistant worms is posing a severe threat to sheep farming in the UK and quoted the figure of £84m as the cost to the UK farming industry of chemical anthelmintics or drenches (wormers). Cotswold Seeds ...