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Silage Analysis for Dairy Cattle; Getting the Most out of your Grass Dry matter (DM) represents the proportion of total components remaining after water has been removed. ...
Herbal leys are great for providing increased forage availability through late spring, summer and autumn when simple grass leys may drop off; their inclusion of deeper rooting ...
Ellen Baekelmans is one of two Doctoral Researchers who have been working with Cotswold Seeds as part of the LegumeLegacy project. Here, Ellen talks about her PhD research into ...
Linn Huser is one of two Doctoral Researchers who are working with Cotswold Seeds as part of the LegumeLegacy project. Here, Linn talks about her research into genetic diversity ...
Starting next month, agroecological adviser Niels Corfield is leading three courses at FarmED about regenerative soil health - one for arable farmers, one for livestock farmers ...
Following the long and wet winter of 2017/2018 which exhausted forage stocks on some farms, we’ve had a spring and early summer season of complete contrast, the ground very ...
This 350 acre farm in Little Salkeld, near Penrith, is a particularly challenging corner of land, with much of it fronting a river which regularly floods, making ploughing ...
On some soils, particularly free draining ones, ryegrass does not yield well. One farmer has found a mix that meets all his needs without using this ...
Suitable soils These mixes are suitable for most soil types where the pH is 5.5 or above. When to sow Sow between March and early May, or August and late ...
You’ve probably noticed how seed availability can fluctuate from year to year. The vast majority of the time this is caused by changes in the weather. Whilst a good season ...
John Cherry, a fourth generation farmer, is one of the founders of Groundswell - the no till and regenerative agriculture show, which advocates no tillage. This policy also ...
As part of a wider project with the Royal Agricultural University, we are conducting research looking into the aims, establishment, management, termination and the root ...
A new research project aims to help UK farmers and growers target Net Zero and build farming resilience through diversifying their arable and forage cropping. It will also enable ...
Although lucerne is mainly used as a crop to produce hay or silage, it may in some cases be grazed in the autumn with sheep or cows. Sheep in Oxfordshire (pictured here) are ...
Intensive silage leys require high yielding, high energy grasses which are easy to cut and ferment to produce high quality forage. Selection of a grass mixture should take into ...
