Nutrient management can often be forgotten on beef and sheep farms, yet there is considerable scope to reduce costs and improve output through the use of home-produced and bought-in nutrients.
‘Management to Promote Flowering Understoreys Benefits Natural Enemy Diversity, Aphid Suppression and Income in an Agroforestry System,’
'Agricultural economists Graham Brookes and Stuart Smyth warn that we must learn the lessons from past experience of divergent international regulation of agricultural innovations.'
This informative and practical event featured Lynn Cassells of Lynbreck Croft, James Reid of Tap o’ Noth Farm, and Dr Lindsay Whistance of the Organic Research Centre, discussing how making hay from…
On-farm trials can be a very effective way to explore ideas and test practices! Read along to find out 10 tips to make the most of this practical research method in real life conditions.
The trial will evaluate the long-term effects of pulses in an arable rotation, particularly the effect on available N to following crops.
Objectives are:
To evaluate the effects of winter beans,…
This Best4Soil video provides an introduction to the topic of soil organic matter, benefits and how to protect and increase soil organic matter on your field. At the end of the video, you will find…
Cover crops and green manures have multiple positive effects on the soil health. But like all methods, this best practice has also some disadvantages.
This guide is designed to help Pulse Pioneers to upload their trials to PulsePEP as part of the NCS Project.