As the four-year-long LegumePlus project comes to a close, highlights of the key findings are now available, in advance of the dissemination event to be held in October 2015. Parasitology Scientists in the EU-funded research project LegumePlus and their collaborators have found ...

It's best to exercise caution when it comes to late sowings in September and October.  This is a good time of year for sowing overwinter cover crops or green manures, which have increased in popularity due to ‘Greening’. However, time is of the essence as the weather deteriorates; ...

Our Mycorrhizal Fungi (MF) trials are progressing well. Earlier this year, we sought farmers willing to take part in trials of MF, sowing half their seeds with MF and half without. Naturally occurring, MF can provide a higher yielding grass ley with increased robustness, better drought tolerance ...

Following the end of the four-year-long EU funded LegumePlus research project, its coordinator Prof. Irene Mueller-Harvey of Reading University will be presenting results in America. Prof. Mueller-Harvey will give a presentation at the Synergy in Science: Partnering for Solutions meeting at the ...

On Saturday we held the Wychwood Project Pollinator Day at Honeydale Farm and it can only be described as a HUGE success. All at Honeydale would like to thank everybody who came and showed huge interest in what is happening at the farm, as well as those Cotswold Seeds staff who showed such ...