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Autumn Agronomy Actions - In this issue:

6th August 2024

Grazing fodder beet as a winter crop for beef and dairy cattle is reducing wintering costs at a Pembrokeshire farm.

Welcome to our Forage and Cover Crop Newsletter.  

In this issue:  Soil Agronomy, Sustainable Rotations, Forage Crops

Following the success of the 2019 tour, Fodder Beet grazing guru Jim Gibbs from Lincoln University NZ is back in the UK.

A solar-powered robot has transformed the way one Shropshire farming family establishes organic fodder beet and overcomes weed problems

Arable spring cropping choices - Optimising N use efficiency – Top cover crop options

Sward diversity can offer significant advantages to all dairy farmers, through grazing or conserved forage, and whether you are high input, spring block calving or organic.

Maize crops - and the bare fields that they leave over winter - are generating soil and water quality concerns.  Could undersowing be the answer to alleviate these problems?

As published in British Dairying

Increased grassland reseeding with specialist leys and strategic use of different forage crops has led to a transformation in the performance of the Roberts Family's sheep and beef enterprises at Ty Draw, Llanasa, on the north Wales coast.

Under-sowing maize with Italian ryegrass delivers valuable spring grazing for youngstock but the bigger benefit for Herefordshire dairy farmer Chris Norman is making the primary crop more sustainable.

Running a fully mixed farming operation with his family, Buckinghamshire farmer Steve Lear has found it easier than many out-and-out arable farms to transition from conventional cultivations to direct drilling.

Restoring soil health to large acreages of farmland and integrating livestock will be key to sustainable arable farming in the future.