by Sara Gregson | Sep 16, 2013 | Farming & Food
I have just completed a cracking four-day tour of Tasmania – a taster of farming Down Under before attending the 22nd International Grassland Congress in Sydney, a four yearly gathering of 800 or so of the great and good in global grassland research, science and...
by Sara Gregson | Aug 1, 2013 | Farming & Food
I stumbled across a charming set of posts from Scythecymru.wordpress.com, charting their hand haymaking process during this glorious July – from mowing with scythes, rowing up, picking up and stacking in racks – some with ‘hats’ on. This has included a ‘social mowing’...
by Sara Gregson | Jul 11, 2013 | Farming & Food
The Gloucestershire group of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association (www.pastureforlife.org) has just been to visit one of the organisation’s growing band of Approved Suppliers. Ian and Kathy Boyd sell meat from Whittington Lodge Farm near Cheltenham, to consumers at...
by Sara Gregson | Jul 9, 2013 | Farming & Food
DairyCo’s Forage for Knowledge newsletter has been fascinating this year – to see how grass growth and quality has progressed since March/April. After the cold, late start, grass – the wonderful plant that it is – seems to have caught itself up. Farmers seem happy...
by Sara Gregson | May 9, 2013 | Farming & Food
Grazing high yielding dairy cows keeps production costs down on one Kent farm, as I discovered on the first of this year’s BGS/DairyCo/RABDF spring farm walks. William Westacott and his herdsman Richard Evans are dairy farmers operating at the top of their game....
by Sara Gregson | Jan 22, 2013 | Farming & Food
Nearly three months after the ‘Pasture to Profit’ conference in Worcester I still keep thinking about Neil Grigg and Tom Foot’s entertaining double act, as they recalled their ‘incredible journey’ so far setting up a milk production business from nothing. This article...
