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Technologies that turn ordinary farm waste into carbon-saving agricultural resources are a step closer to reality with a successful on-farm pilot scheme in North Wales...

Richard Smith, Farms Manager for Daylesford Organic, explains how they rear their Friesian calves at Daylesford. This includes having a calf stay with its mum...

Helen Browning, Chief Executive of the Soil Association and farmer at Eastbrook Farm in North Wiltshire introduces the farming enterprise which includes their 200 saddleback...

James Alexander explains how he is looking to reduce tillage in an organic system on Litchfield Farm. He explains the roller crimper method to kill...

Agriculture has huge potential to be part of the solution to enhancing biodiversity, addressing climate change and supporting and enhancing natural resources, whilst also building...

The future of the agricultural environment is dogged by uncertainty - the Government is in flux, Brexit may or may not happen at some point,...

Autumn is the perfect time for lime to capitalise on early spring growth on low pH soils. If ground conditions permit, taking action now to...

Intercropping has been shown to be beneficial for pest, disease and weed management, preventing lodging, improving water quality, soil fertility and biodiversity as well as...

For those living in parts of the south and east of England, the switch from summer to autumn came very suddenly three weeks into September,...

Dr Alastair Leake (Director of Policy & the Allerton Project for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) talks about why it's important to consider using...

Dr Alastair Leake (Director of Policy & the Allerton Project for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) discusses why they are trialling taking an arable...

At the Wageningen Soil Conference in August 2019 we listened to many brilliant talks on the latest soil science; some of which were incredibly relevant...

Richard Smith of Daylesford Organic Farms talks about grass leys and how they put them into stubble, and undersowing grass leys into cereal crops. He...

The end of the Second World War saw an increase in the need for food. It’s also the period where antibiotics first became available to...

Can plants still be used as veterinary treatment of animals or is this old tittle-tattle? That is the question we want to help answer. It’s...

This year will be the first that neonicotinoid seed dressings will no longer be routinely applied to cereal crops following their ban last year. This...

When I first met psychologist Willie Horton during my Nuffield scholarship, he professed that you could learn to achieve your goals - effortlessly! It was...

Richard Smith, Farms Manager at Daylesford Organic Farm discusses how he is converting a conventional arable field into a grass and clover ley for livestock...

In this follow up to August's vlog on herbal leys by Ian Wilkinson, Ian (Farm Manager of Honeydale Farm & MD of Cotswold Seeds &...

In this short video, Ian Wilkinson (Farm Manager of Honeydale Farm & MD of Cotswold Seeds & Farm Ed) discusses why they chose deep rooting...