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Spring Sown High Performance Ryegrass Sowing a high performance ryegrass catch crop this spring could offer a flexible low risk solution for farmers with bare ground following aborted autumn drilling.
Profitable Maize Under Film For Devon farmer Stuart Cole, growing feedstock for a green energy anaerobic digester needs to be part of an integrated and sustainable rotational cropping system, just as any other progressive farming operation.
Maize Undersowing Success Pressure to avoid leaving maize stubbles bare over winter is growing. Luke James reports on a project to develop successful methods of under-sowing.
Grass Mix Trials Gaining knowledge to help maximise metabolisable energy per hectare (ME/ha) from grassland is one objective at Field Options’ long-term mixture trials in Shropshire, as Luke James discovered.
Evolving strategy helps maintain maize performance Maize is integral to mixed forage cropping at one farm in north Wales. adapting to change has helped to insure the crop continues to maximise its potential.
Clampsaver featured in Farmers Guardian Rob Watkins, a Field Options customer from Herefordshire is featured in the Farmers' Guardian of 3rd November 2018. Rob runs two flocks of different breeds totalling 960 ewes which lamb in two groups. A key element of his forage system is Field Options' Clampsaver Rape and Ryegrass mixture whic
Mixed swards help cut production costs Field Options customer, Phil Kent, made the cover of Forager's spring edition. "Low cost forage adds up for Cornish sheep system. Finishing lambs on herbal leys, changing breed type and lambing later means one Cornish sheep farm is on track to shave over £1/kg off cost of production"
