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No Rain? No Problem! Drought resistant grass.

Dry summers have become more of a problem in recent years and the challenge of producing grass reliably on parched soil is a difficult ...

Slash N Costs and Improve Your Soil

Arable farmers can slash N costs with these soil improving crops. According to John Nix’s Farm Management Pocketbook, fertiliser prices increased by 45% each year between ...

Wrapped Bale Silage for High Silage Quality

Silage is made on most farms but, surprisingly, less than half conserve it in the form of wrapped bales. With this is mind we asked Nigel Ford of All Things Rural to set out the ...

The Highest Yield of Protein Rich Forage over the Shortest Time

There has been a sharp increase in the use of short term ley mixtures. Rapid in establishment and quick to produce bulk, these mixtures have become favourites for those producing ...

Sainfoin for the Ruminant

Robin Hill was a sainfoin enthusiast. He explains here why sainfoin is the best fodder legume to meet the production requirements of ruminant ...

Sainfoin – Worth Another Look?

Jason Koivisto and Gerry Lane have been growing Sainfoin at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Their results are quite encouraging and will be of interest to those ...

Sainfoin - Nomenclature, History & Distribution

There is a record of sainfoin being imported into England from France in 1652. From this time onwards it became widely grown in certain areas mainly the Cotswolds, Salisbury plain ...

Rooting out Winter Feed with Forage Brassicas

Root crops can give green forage just when you need it ...

Weeds, Pests and Diseases in grass and forage crops

There are many different types of pest or disease that can destroy or affect the output of a crop, if not managed ...

Add a Fodder Brassica to the Rotation

Fodder crops provide useful green forage when grass is restricted. They also make crop rotation work. Once the decision has been made to break up a ley or pasture, many farmers ...

Red Clover – Worth a Try

With its high yielding ability, forage quality and suitability for silage, red clover could play a more important role than at present in environmentally-friendly, sustainable ...

Legumes for profitable, high quality forage

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 ...

Grazed Legumes for Finishing Lambs

Low returns from the beef and sheep sectors are forcing producers to look for minimum cost systems that produce the low fat product consumers demand. Maximising the utilisation of ...

Ground Rules for Establishing Clover

With their ability to provide high yields of good quality forage and to fix ‘free’ nitrogen from the atmosphere, clovers are finding popularity on many farms. Clovers ...

Short Term, High Yield, Protein Rich Forage

There has been a sharp increase in the use of short term ley mixtures. Rapid in establishment and quick to produce bulk, these mixtures have become favourites for those producing ...

Put New Life in Your Old Pastures

Over half the UK is down to grass. But is it productive?

Use overseeding to improve your pasture

Over seeding is a simple, effective and low cost way to improve worn leys or old pasture without ploughing and ...

Forage Management for Low Cost Sheep Production

More efficient use of our cheapest resource, grazed grass - research work done at SAC and other centres was reviewed to identify where the cost of production could be ...

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