Great start to 2015. Really looking forward to taking part in the 'Optimising productivity and soil health by building soil organic matter' session organised by the Soil Association at the Oxford Real Farming conference at Oxford Town Hall tomorrow. Ian Wilkinson is on stage at 2pm in the Council ...

This made us think of the classic Russian story of, 'The Enormous Turnip' in which in a grandfather plants a turnip, which grows so large that he cannot pull it up himself. More people are recruited to help - grandmother, granddaughter, dog, cat, mouse, until they finally pull the turnip up ...

We’ve always seen part of our role at Cotswold Seeds as an information bridge between scientists and farmers, so we’re delighted to be taking part in the Soil Association's National Soil Symposium next week on Tuesday 25 November in Solihull billed as a practical event for ...

When the clocks go back, officially bringing British summertime to an end, you may think it’s too late to sow for forage for next year  - but it’s not. You can compensate for late sowing by pushing the sowing rate up by 30% with a ryegrass based mixture such as our Maximum Yield ...

The weather has taken a sudden turn for the worse and Autumn, so slow in coming, seems to have arrived with a burst of rain showers. Not surprisingly, we’ve been getting calls from customers asking what to do if they’ve sown seeds but not yet rolled them. How long can seeds be left ...