by Sara Gregson | Oct 26, 2011 | Farming & Food
Hooray for ASDA for encouraging its 13,500 milk, beef and lamb suppliers to embrace new grass breeding technology. They are offering to buy an extra acre bag of Aber High Sugar grass seed, for every ten acres purchased by the farmer from seed company British Seed...
by Sara Gregson | Oct 26, 2011 | Farming & Food
In 3,291 soil tests carried out on beef and sheep pasture by EBLEX, with the Environment Agency (EA) and the Farming Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG), only a shocking 2% of fields had the perfect nutrient levels to support good grass growth. 43% had a pH level below the...
by Sara Gregson | Oct 14, 2011 | Gardening & Environment
The King of Bhutan and his new bride received ‘grass’ as a wedding gift when they got married this week. Having travelled to Inner Mongolia I know how important grass can be to a nation – not just for food production but historically and culturally. While there, I...
by Sara Gregson | Oct 14, 2011 | Farming & Food
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Farmers Weekly Awards – especially dairy farmer Gavin Fowler, beef producer Sam Chesney and overall winner, hill farmer Charlie Russell. All three use grass to reduce their costs of production. Sam runs his beef enterprise...
by Sara Gregson | Oct 14, 2011 | Farming & Food
It’s easy digging for rabbits in a field of red clover in Shropshire – as the worst drought in living memory has yet to break. Dairy and beef producer John Downes said at a BGS event held on his farm near Longnor in September, that he cannot remember a year like it....