by Sara Gregson | Dec 22, 2015 | Farming & Food
The Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trusts annual conference was held this year in Belfast. I was up for the Steven and Gillian Bullock Award – for the scholar who has done most with their award ten years on, but it was also a great way to check up on the exploits of...
by Sara Gregson | Nov 13, 2015 | Farming & Food
It was great to see Paul Bird the other day, the first New Zealand grassland consultant to set up discussion groups here, and encouraging dairy farmers to stop using feeder wagons and produce more milk from grazed grass. Paul started in 1997. He just happened to be...
by Sara Gregson | Aug 4, 2015 | Farming & Food
Three years ago, Finnish grassland consultants Anu Ellä and Jarkko Storberg came to Britain looking for ways to make their farmers’ fields more productive. The traditional timothy/fescue silage leys in Finland are hardy enough to stand up to harsh winters and deep...
by Sara Gregson | May 3, 2015 | Farming & Food
Keeping 880 cows on a grass-based system and milking them once a day, is far more enjoyable and makes more money, than having half the number of cows and milking them three, or even two times a day. So says Gavin Green – and he should know. He, with Lydney Park Estate...
by Sara Gregson | Apr 21, 2015 | Farming & Food
Imagine if all plants of the Gramineae (or Poaceae) family in the world turned brown, rotted and died, falling victim to a virus that scientists failed to curb. No wheat, barley, rice or maize, no grass for grazing so no cattle or sheep – just potatoes, vegetables and...
by Sara Gregson | Jan 13, 2015 | Farming & Food
I was excited to be invited to the UK debut screening of Steak [R]evolution in London last week. This follows the search of documentary film director Franck Ribière and famous French butcher Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec, for the best steak in the world. Yves-Marie made...