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: Italian and perennial. It has characteristics from both parents and therefore provides farmers with a high yielding grass ...

Due to prolonged dry weather many long term leys and permanent pastures have been over grazed recently by cattle, sheep and horses. This is especially the case in the drought-affected regions of the south and east of the UK.  Grassland that is continually close grazed will not bulk up in the ...

Wild bird seed mixtures can be sown from May onwards. July is getting late for many species that are sown to provide winter food for farmland birds. For patching up failed sowings from May it is recommended to sow fast growing species such as mustard and rape. Our seeds RETRIEVE mixture ...

After extreme weather we are always glad to finally see some sunshine and higher temperatures.  Some farmers can be very behind compared to previous other years and welcome sunshine is a great opportunity for making hay.  Long sunshine hours and good temperatures are ...

For many years the organisation responsible for plant breeding and varietal experimentation in Switzerland has been Agroscope ART in Reckenholz.  The scientists at Reckenholz, and particularly the breeding specialist Beat Boller, have been responsible for many successful varieties such as the ...