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British agriculture is a balance between food production and responsible environmental management. There are many challenges farmers and land owners face within their own businesses,...

Picture a sheep... Bleating. Grazing. Chewing the cud. Following the crowd. Possibly lying on its back as sheep are wont to do. All typical sheep...

The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has been carrying out weeding trials at its Harnhill Manor Farm, near Cirencester, looking at the role of mechanical weeding...

Can dairy farmers lead the way in the UK for antibiotic reduction? Why of course, it is already happening! A pilot project sponsored by AHDB...

In 2010, I took a trip to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New York, USA, to ask some organic dairy farmers about how they managed health and...

... and not just a load of old bull! What if somebody told you that there is a credible alternative to antibiotics, that it is...

How can we manage pernicious perennial weeds without recourse to agrochemicals, or cultivations that can damage soil structure and soil biology? For organic farmers that...

The importance of soil health is now well recognised. With warnings that the UK’s soils have only 100 harvests left, and with flooding a growing...

Richard Smith, Senior Farm Manager at Daylesford Farm discusses harrow combing oats. The oats were drilled late in October which allows the crop to grow...

This month Richard is re-visiting the sheep barn, explaining how they lamb at Daylesford. The sheep have been shorn, scanned and grouped into singles, doubles...

Life is all about choices, some turn out well and others can fire a whole load of challenges your way. The same is true as...

It won’t be news to anyone in the farming sector that times are tough. Farming is influenced by many external elements meaning sometimes the only...

What happens when 42 people co-farm a field of wheat? In September 2015, 42 people; a motley bunch of bakers and bankers, neighbours and scientists...

Companion cropping can sometimes be a difficult term to define, but a learned fellow farmer, Andy Howard , describes it as growing two or more...

Speaking to a good friend of mine recently about agroforestry, and trying to explain what I actually meant by it, I ended up flippantly saying...

This month Richard talks about the beef cattle at Daylesford , giving a few pointers on feeding regimes and calving management. There are three types...

This month Richard is in the sheep barn talking about the sheep enterprise at Daylesford. Richard lambs 1,250 Lleyn ewes commercially and also lambs 250...

Ok, so maybe not in the sense that you can hop on board, turn the stereo on and get stuck into the hay or silage...

Richard visits the dairy barn to talk about rearing calves on the farm. The farm has a long calving period; from September until the following...

The Soil Association, in collaboration with Catchment Sensitive Farming, will be running soil health workshops in February, where you will have a chance to learn...