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Scott Laidlaw has received the British Grassland Society award for his outstanding contribution to the understanding of grassland management. He is currently working at The ...
To hold a seed in the palm of the hand is to hold a small future that is impossible to predict. Is the seed alive or is it dead? Will it germinate if it is given water, or is it ...
The soil is one of our most precious resources. It is the medium in which we grow our food, and it is home to a multitude of organisms whose activity is vital to crop growth. ...
Trials at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester (Gloucestershire) and by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (Hampshire) have indicated the higher yield potential ...
Arable farming is more profitable with grass leys in the rotation. So says Dr Lindsay Easson of the Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland. In Northern ...
Legumes help sustain soil fertility but the plant is only half the ...
The effect on carcass and meat ...
BBC ‘Countryfile’ programme carried a feature about how the emergence of drug-resistant worms is posing a severe threat to sheep farming in the UK and quoted the ...
As the four-year-long LegumePlus project comes to a close, highlights of the key findings are now available, in advance of the dissemination event to be held in October ...
LegumePlus is a 4 year research project funded by the EU. Kicking off in 2012, its key objectives are to further investigate how bioactive forage legumes, in particular sainfoin ...
As we seek to reduce fertiliser use, conserve water and increase yields, improving the practical benefits from certain soil microbes may hold the key to achieving greater value ...
As part of our involvement with the LegumePlus project studying the various benefits of Sainfoin (legumeplus.eu), we are exposed to a great deal of scientific information, ...
Anaerobic Digestion - 'Super Grass' herbal ley offers arable farmers a soil fertility building opportunity. Anaerobic digestion has been headline news recently, as an alternative ...
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