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Dick Roper is the farm manager at Broadfield Farm partnership, a traditional mixed farm in the Cotswolds. He is known to many for his sheepdog handling skills. With over 2400 ...
This wildlife friendly farm has adopted a very long term approach to its soils. Caroline Corsie, a trained agronomist, is the manager and believes that farming starts from the ...
Dagan James is an organic farmer who mob-grazes Water Buffalo on his special herbal ley. Complex seed mixes have been grown on this farm in Stockbridge since 2004, ...
Here Sandy McFarland, a long time organic customer of Cotswold Seeds, explains his preference for the Lamins Ley and its benefits over ryegrass-only leys for his dairy ...
Tom and his family have been farming near Kings Lynn since the 1960s, having originally moved up from Hampshire. The farm is a mixed dairy and arable enterprise, based around a ...
Over 15 years of growing two year ryegrass silage leys, Greg Dancer has developed great insight into the many benefits of this crop. Greg farms a thousand acres in the ...
Here John Rogers from Hereford describes his Pochon Persistent mixture and how he is able to achieve high yields with no artificial Nitrogen inputs. He regularly takes ...
This Oxfordshire farmer makes high demands on his grass, but careful management ensures he fulfils his ...
This equine and arable farm in Little Horkesley has been owned by Stephen March’s relations since just after the First World War but when Stephen and his wife took it over ...
John Rogers from Hereford explains how and why he uses Lucerne silage for his dairy herd, and how it has provided a valuable fallback during dry weather in recent ...
One Dorset farmer is reliant on legumes to ensure high forage ...
John Rogers has been growing Sainfoin on his farm in Hereford since 2004, and has found after 6 years it is still improving, even after an intitial potash deficiency. Here ...
An experienced grower of root crops, Mr Strainge outlines how he relies upon these crops to feed his sheep through the winter ...
One farmer's story of using root crops to provide winter forage on marginal ...
Linden Edwards from Monmouth discovered red clover in 2001 and claims that it has revolutionised his farming practice. Linden also grows barley in rotation which has ...
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