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Crops & Grassland
22 July 2020
Join AHDB and Dr Luppo Diepenbroek, Independent consultant, for a webinar on outwintering cattle.
5 August 2020
The latest revision of the Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) included a significant development, with the inclusion of grain nutrient analysis. This webinar will discuss the reasons behind this change and how you can use this new knowledge on-farm.
17 July 2020
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
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 growers can learn about their fields' aphid populations, if they get involved in our research project.
16 July 2020
AHDB North East Monitor Farms discuss prospects for harvest 2020
14 July 2020
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
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
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
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.
22 July 2020
AHDB is supporting a panel discussion from the British Grassland Society, featuring a conversation between Paul Muto, Natural England; Professor Chris Reynolds, University of Reading; Sam Lane, Cotswold Seeds and dairy farmer, Rob Richmond.