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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...

This month, Richard is in the turkey field, discussing rearing turkeys for Christmas. He explains that the main reason for starting a turkey enterprise was...

The GWCT Allerton Project has nearly 25 years of applied science and practical farming experience. We recognise the issues raised in the State of Nature...

For decades, upland farming has come under pressure. At one end accused of not being modern enough, and, at the other, of damaging ecosystems. Yet...

Without question, the Brexit referendum result has opened up a significant debate about the future of agriculture in the UK, and the place of organic...

In our October video blog, Richard discusses subsoiling, drilling oats and training sheep dogs to help you on your farm. Subsoiling Richard starts in a...

We all know compost is good, right? Most of us also know that it is almost impossible to get enough good compost from our own...