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 | Apr 22, 2013 | Gardening & Environment
A new Welsh Government funded (of almost £600,000) project is looking to isolate and extract sugars and other components from ryegrass, and convert them into products that have a lower carbon footprint than oil. These will include pulp-moulded packaging products for...
by Sara Gregson | Mar 21, 2013 | Gardening & Environment
Grazing guru and biologist Allan Savory recently gave an inspirational TED talk (riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world at www.ted.com). It has already had over 600,000 views – so it’s certainly hitting a chord. His key messages are: ♦ Two thirds of...
by Sara Gregson | Nov 15, 2012 | Farming & Food
At a recent workshop run by the Advanced Training Partnership (ATP), which is currently delivering postgraduate distance learning for people working in the agri-food industry (www.atp-pasture.org.uk), Dr.Iwan Owen of IBERS gave a great précis of UK grassland farming....
by Sara Gregson | Sep 21, 2012 | Farming & Food
Well done to the UK’s Pasture-Fed Livestock Association for getting everything in place (on the tightest of budgets) to allow producers who feed only grass and conserved forage, to market their meat under the new PASTORAL brand. Set up as a community interest company,...
