Content related to the topic: crops-grassland

17 July 2020

Planning autumn grazing

Next month, it’s time to start planning your farm’s grazing to set up for spring 2021. So keep measuring, take a look at long-range weather forecasts and use your grazing software to help you make good decisions. This advice, from LIC grazing consultant Bess Jowsey, comes on the back of an expensive grazing season for many herds hit by the drought.

6 January 2025

Weighing up the cost of winter feeding

Outwintering has several potential advantages over housing, but these have to be carefully weighed against possible concerns over animal welfare in unsuitable field conditions, the risk of soil erosion and performance targets.

16 July 2020

Cereal sites required to target aphid research

Cereal growers can learn about their fields' aphid populations, if they get involved in our research project.

16 July 2020

North East Monitor Farm summer meeting

AHDB North East Monitor Farms discuss prospects for harvest 2020

14 July 2020

Webinar: How to monitor crop development and disease

Learn how to disease score your crops with Catherine Harries, AHDB and assess crop development through the season with Brian Barker, EJ Barker and Sons and Strategic Cereal Farm East Host. Use this information to help inform matching inputs to potential through the season.

8 July 2020

Cereal disease ratings to rein in the rust (article)

With cereal rust populations changing at an unprecedented rate, it has become clear that the RL rating system also needs to adapt to survive.

7 July 2020

Using clover to drive performance with reduced N inputs

AHDB’s Animal Health & Welfare Scientist ,Siwan Howatson, and Helen Mathieu, Area Sales Manager at Germinal delivered a webinar looking at the use of red and white clover to improve performance.

7 July 2020

Maintaining cattle performance at grass

Across the whole season, growth rates of around 1 kg are achievable at grass, depending on stock type, pasture quality and length of grazing season. Good grazing management can reduce cost of production through lower feed costs, improved growth rates and a longer grazing season and lead to higher stocking rates.

1 July 2020

AHDB's East Anglia and North East England agriculture study tour to Bulgaria – July 2019

Teresa Meadows reviews last year's AHDB East Anglia and North East England Agriculture Study Tour to Bulgaria

28 July 2020

Combine the ‘most reliable’ techniques to tackle CSFB

Factors that influence cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) pressure in winter oilseed rape (OSR).

15 January 2026

Top 10 cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) management strategies for oilseed rape

Find out how to layer IPM strategies to tackle CSFB.

25 September 2024

Paul Gosling