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 ...

Sam has been travelling the length and breadth of the country giving more talks on the benefits of green manures, cover crops and soil health as part of GREATsoils - Growing Resilient, Efficient and Thriving Soils. This ongoing programme of soil viability and farm health workshops is organised by ...

Sam visited G’s in Cambridgeshire to talk about Green Manures or Cover Crops last week, as part of the Soil Association’s Great Soils initiative. G’s is a family firm, established in the 1950s, that now supplies major UK and many European retailers with fresh, tasty and healthy ...