by Sara Gregson | Jun 19, 2012 | Farming & Food
Happy 65th birthday to The Stockman Grass Farmer – the quarterly newspaper edited and published by grazing guru Allan Nation out of Ridgeland, Mississippi in the USA. Allan also has several books to his name including: Quality Pasture – how to create it, manage it and...
by Sara Gregson | May 31, 2012 | Farming & Food
A world-leading research facility that will mimic on-farm scenarios was launched in sweltering heat in Devon last week. The North Wyke Farm Platform – part of Rothamsted Research and funded to the tune of £3.6million by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences...
by Sara Gregson | May 22, 2012 | Farming & Food
Professor Jamie Newbold, director of research and enterprise at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Research (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University, believes that ruminant feed research can address the big social and environmental challenges of the next...
by Sara Gregson | May 15, 2012 | Farming & Food
I hosted two farm business advisers from Finland last week – taking them to see dairy farmers in England and Wales, the largest grass trials site in the UK and ending up at a rain-soaked Grassland UK. They looked in envy at Tim Downes’ and Neale Manning’s...
by Sara Gregson | Apr 24, 2012 | Farming & Food
Tune into a new internet TV service dedicated to pasture farming and the vital role it plays in all our lives at www.pasturepromise.tv The idea of agricultural author Graham Harvey and rural media specialist Trevor Bailey, Pasture Promise TV sets out to show how good...
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,...
