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Producing silage by compacting green fodder and storing it in airtight conditions, typically in a silo, without first being dried, means that livestock can enjoy the ...
Lucerne, a legume that’s also known as Alfalfa, is highly productive and, without nitrogen fertiliser, it reliably provides three to four cuts of protein-rich silage ...
Sainfoin, which means ‘healthy or holy hay’, is a silage or hay crop with aftermath grazing, and in these times of fluctuating feed and veterinary drugs prices, ...
When grass is restricted, fodder crops provide essential forage, reducing feed costs. They are also highly beneficial break crops which reduce grassland weeds and pest ...
Red clover can be sown in monoculture, but a mixture with grasses is preferable, since this gives higher total forage yield and makes better silage. Red clover leys produce silage ...
The steep decline in the population of honey bees is a well documented issue and one that could have huge effects on agriculture and the food chain, since bees, like other flying ...
Horses grazing requirements can be different to that of sheep and cattle but it’s very important to get the pasture right. In the wild, horses have free access to a wide ...
If you’re growing maize, drilling grass into a standing maize crop can bring multiple benefits and now is the perfect time to sow Italian ryegrass with CoverCoat. ...
The hot weather in the middle of June has really helped with hay-making. A two year Italian Ryegrass Ley sown in Autumn last year has produced top quality hard horse hay ideal ...
In the last two weeks we have seen plenty of silage being cut. Local farmer and contractor Alan Smith cut Italian ryegrass on the 22nd May. The two year Italian ryegrass ley ...
Sow westerwold annual ryegrass now and you’ll have a high yielding hay crop ready for cutting within just three to four months time. Other forage leys which take longer to ...
Anaerobic digestion has made headline news as a green energy alternative to fracking. Cotswold Seeds Technical Advisor Paul Totterdell was interviewed by Reuters to talk ...
Never in recent memory has it been more important to find a way to make livestock profitable. Cotswold Seeds considers this problem and suggests that a lower cost of forage ...
Self-sufficient leys that provide high protein grazing. The benefits derived from clover are proportional to the amount in the sward. In the UK the most important forage legume ...
The late Robert Handy who farmed land at Andoversford, near Cheltenham, always said that there were three golden rules to observe when sowing grass seeds. Rol...
Great lawns are a distinctive feature of British gardens. Our mixtures contain the best modern varieties that require minimal maintenance so you can enjoy more time looking and ...
Solar panels often known as arrays, are usually mounted 1.5- 2.5 metres above the ground, so the question is what best to grow beneath them. We have learned that contractors ...
Trace elements, as the name implies, are required in very small quantities by both plants and animals, and concentrations are measured in parts per million (ppm) or mg per kg. The ...
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