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Dung beetles: Keeping pasture healthy and livestock happy
blog In the UK, there are around 60 species of dung beetle. By going about their daily business, dung beetles provide an array of ecosystem services...Type, texture & structure, Drainage, Organic matter, Soil biology, Animal health & welfare, Grasslands & forage crops, Biodiversity -
Finishing Cattle on Homegrown Forage
blog Head Stockman for Daylesford Farm, Phil Gordon-Jones talks us through the benefits of finishing his beef cattle on home grown forage and we join him...Animal health & welfare, Beef cattle & sheep -
Phosphorus Survey for UK Dairy Farmers, Nutritionists and Advisers
blog The University of Reading, in collaboration with Harper Adams University, is running a project aiming at investigating the potential to reduce phosphorus losses from dairy...Animal health & welfare, Dairy cattle, Business management, Pollinators & ecological services -
Tall Grass Grazing and the Future of Livestock Farming
blog The challenges facing farmers today are huge, with uncertainty around changes to CAP payments and questions about how farming will be valued in generations to...Animal health & welfare, Grasslands & forage crops -
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2019 highlights
blog Agricology kick-started 2019 with the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) on 3rd - 4th January, along with over 1000 organic and conventional farmers, food producers...Weeds, Pests & diseases, Animal health & welfare, Grasslands & forage crops, Crop nutrition & fertility building, Pollinators & ecological services, Regulations, standards & policy, Markets & food systems, People & skills -
Sainfoin Nutritional Analysis
blog In this months Agricology vlog, Richard Smith (Farm Manager at Daylesford Organic Farm) gives an update on the nutritional analysis that was carried out on...Rotations, Animal health & welfare, Grasslands & forage crops, Crop nutrition & fertility building -
Making your soil rain-ready (part 2): Time to look ahead
blog Following-on from part 1 , where I focused on observations of soil structure (as a measure of soil health) and what conclusions could be drawn...Type, texture & structure, Compaction & cultivation, Drainage, Rotations, Organic matter, Animal health & welfare, Grasslands & forage crops -
How is the pasture-fed innovative practitioners’ project going?
blog Naturally productive systems which support large numbers of grazing livestock have provided inspiration for Pasture for Life (PfL) certified producers to adopt pasture management practices...Animal health & welfare, Grasslands & forage crops -
Ensuring the welfare of livestock and UK farming
blog During April we dipped into the vast topic of ways of increasing and maintaining livestock health and welfare , such as making maximum use of...Animal health & welfare, Regulations, standards & policy, Markets & food systems -
Welfare in Dairy
blog In this months Agricology vlog, Richard Smith, Senior Farms Manager at Daylesford Farm, suggests that by demonstrating full transparency in farming practices we are in...Organic farming, Organic matter, Animal health & welfare, Dairy cattle