Soil health expert, Niels Corfield, has been observing and monitoring two hundred farms across the UK, and what he has seen has convinced him that problems caused by increasingly wet winters and summer droughts are not caused by the weather per se, but are largely down to soil health ...

Ellen Baekelmans is one of two Doctoral Researchers who are working with Cotswold Seeds as part of the LegumeLegacy project. We asked each of the Doctoral Reesarchers to produce a technical article for us and Ellen's article is titled 'The Secret Life of Mycorrhizal ...

Linn Huser is one of two Doctoral Researchers who are working with Cotswold Seeds as part of the LegumeLegacy project. We asked each of the Doctoral Reesarchers to produce a technical article for us and Linn's article is titled 'Diploids and Tetraploids in Grassland Leys ...

The Secret Life of Mycorrhizal Fungi - What Is it And How Does it Work? By Ellen Baekelmans Fungi are very diverse and fascinating organisms. They are ubiquitous and come in all sorts of shapes, forms and specialties. Some are known for their negative impacts on crop yields1 but fungi can also be ...

Farm Type: Beef Location: Berkshire  Size: 400 Acres Soil Type: Sand and Chalk  Mixes Used: GS4 Legume & Herb Rich Sward  David Illsley’s four hundred acre farm near Newbury in Berkshire lies on soil which is difficult to farm; it’s light and sandy overlaying ...