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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 ...

Agricultural Mixtures Vs Amenity Mixtures

There are big differences between the types of seed mixtures we use for agricultural purposes, such as hay, silage and grazing, and those that we advise for amenity use, such as ...

Making Hay - for horses, sheep and cattle

Making good hay is both an art and a science, as well as being weather-dependent.   Starting out with the right seed is certainly a step in the right direction. Hay ...

Case Study: Multi-species Leys with Charles Hunter Smart

Charles Hunter-Smart has held the position of Farm and Estate Manager at Bradwell Grove for nearly 30 years, running a business which includes arable cropping, a beef suckler ...

Frank Newman Turner - Father of the Herbal Ley

If there is one man who has inspired and influenced the work of Cotswold Seeds and guided our product development its Frank Newman Turner, a pioneering farmer and author who ...

How to Make the Most of Cover Crops and Green Manures

Listen to the webinar hosted by Ian Wilkinson, on how to make the most of cover crops and green manures, covering everything from when to sow, what equipment is needed to sow, ...

Over-Winter Green Manures - A Winter of opportunity

Autumn sown cover crops or green manures are increasingly being grown on conventional and organic farms to improve soil fertility instead of leaving bare fallow over the winter ...

Bloat – A new approach to an old problem

Ruminal tympany, commonly known as bloat, is a digestive disorder of ruminants that occurs when the gas produced during normal rumination is trapped in the rumen and can not be ...

Diverse Swards Equal Diverse Benefits

Fertiliser merchant, food manufacturer and vet all in ...

Pasture Promise - Cotswold Seeds and Complex Mixtures

Ian Wilkinson describes the benefits of complex seed mixtures and their importance in modern grassland ...

Extending The Grazing Season on Dairy Farms

Dr. John Frame, fellow of the Linnean Society and a past president of the British Grasssland Society, and Scott Laidlaw, a recipient of the BGS award, explain how to extend the ...

Common species in UK grass seed mixtures

When we consider the different species that can be utilised in a grass seed mixture, grasses and clovers can be viewed as a versatile array of tools, which when carefully ...

Tetraploid Hybrid Ryegrasses

Grassland accounts for two thirds of the agricultural land in the UK and supports about £10 billion worth of ruminant products per year, which represents 60% of the UK ...

Westerwolds the Fast Growing Forage

Isn’t it strange how things change? Only a couple of decades ago westerwolds ryegrass was considered to be a poor quality, emergency crop with little appeal to UK farmers. ...

Seed Mixtures for Solar Farms

Here at Cotswold Seeds we have seen an increasing volume of enquiries about creating a durable grass cover for large scale solar parks. Some of these solar parks have an existing ...

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