A mixture of information, news & case studies
Last month a group of Cotswold Seeds customers came to FarmED for a socially distanced farm walk to learn more about the benefits of regenerative agriculture. They heard ...
Cotswold Seeds MD, Ian Wilkinson, studied Farm and Grassland Management at BCA Maidenhead, where he also met his wife, Celene and spent a year as Student President under ...
Richard and Jo Cuzens at Littleton Cheney in Dorset kindly sent in these images. Following an Italian ryegrass silage mix the field was sown in August 2019 with a ...
Wireworms, the juvenile larvae of the click beetle (Elateridae) are a particular risk to crops which follow grass within a four year period. It’s believed that the wireworms ...
Young ryegrass/red clover leys that were sown in the autumn can look like they are nitrogen deficient in their first spring. Some farmers opt to apply N fertiliser in early April ...
Glorious photos of our Cornfield Annual Mixture in bloom in Surrey. (/products/929/cornfield-annuals-mixture) 'A very cheerful display which is much admired ...
The second episode of the No Till Crimper Roller series follows on from week one where we established the crop was a little to under-developed to crimp yet. We continue to hunt ...
Rob Havard’s herd of pedigree Aberdeen Angus is bred to produce breeding stock bulls, and comprises 60 sucklers, plus followers. As Rob is a member of the Pasture for ...
RESEARCH PROJECTS & TRIALS SARIC & NIAB Restoring Soil Quality Through the Reintegration of Leys and Sheep into Arable Rotation Aim: Many farms are reintroducing mixed ...
Ryegrass - the most popular agricultural grass species - comes in four forms: perennial, Italian, westerwold and hybrid. The hybrid is the progeny of two of these ryegrasses: ...
Bumble-bees used to be a regular feature of the British countryside. They were often considered so common as to be unworthy of special mention by entomologists before the Second ...
March is the time of year when many farmers start thinking about over-seeding tired or worn leys with grass and/or clover. This is an excellent - and economical - way of ...
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 ...
Stuart Hammond is a third generation farmer, and his family have been using Cotswold Seeds’ Pochon Persistent ley for over two decades with impressive results and ...
A group of ornithologists and farmers met to discuss plans for Honeydale Farm this week at the start of a study to determine whether growing bird seed mixes together with ...
