by Sara Gregson | Apr 15, 2012 | Sports & Leisure
The answer is grass! Even on holiday on a canal boat last week I couldn’t stop finding reminders of the different and ingenious ways we use grass in our everyday lives. After negotiating the six locks at the end of the Kennet and Avon canal we moored next to Bath...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 29, 2012 | Farming & Food
Somerset dairy farmer Caroline Spencer has turned the family’s tenanted mixed farm on its head over the past few years – making it a more profitable and sustainable business. The 147ha farm used to run a high yielding, autumn calving herd of 140 Holstein cows,...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 26, 2012 | Farming & Food
Volatile cereal prices and uncertainties over future global wheat supplies are key reasons why livestock farmers should include more grass in their feeding plans this spring, according to independent grassland expert Charlie Morgan. Speaking at Duchy College in...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 13, 2012 | Farming & Food
I spent an exciting if chilly day on an arable and beef farm in Hertfordshire yesterday, where Nuffield Scholar Tom Chapman is implementing novel grazing practices seen on his travels in Canada. High density stock grazing – aka mob-grazing – where large numbers of...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 6, 2012 | Sports & Leisure
Horses given a choice of silage, high or low quality haylage and hay, all made from the same grass crop in a trial in Sweden strongly favoured the silage. Dr Cecilia Müller from the University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, told an audience of farmers and horse...
