Spring is finally in the air. Last year was very challenging being the wettest in living memory and the waterlogged land is finally drying up after the continual rain, snow and cold conditions. The ground temperature is at last at the point where overseeding can take place to&nb...

A presentation we've been giving to agricultural colleges, international symposia and farming groups on the many benefits of seed mixtures containing ...

The EU’s ruling for treatment for flea beetle (Cruzer and similar) remains the same as last year - it can only be applied to kale and swede and other brassicas including rape, turnips, mustard etc cannot be treated. The reasoning for this is that kale and swede do not produce seed very ...

It’s always been part of my vision to have a farm as an extension of the Cotswold Seeds business and last year we bought Honeydale Farm, one hundred acres in the Cotswolds. During the past 12 months we’ve been observing and taking baseline assessments on the land prior to making any ...

Our new catalogue went out last week and we’ve had a couple of queries about why we price our mixtures in kg per acre. By law, we are obliged to sell in metric, but the vast majority of our customers still refer to sowing in acres. We therefore use the combination of imperial and metric ...