FARM ZONE
An advice, comment and opinion resource for the agricultural community
TACKLING THE CHALLENGE OF SOIL COMPACTION
Last year’s government report on the state of the environment for soil drew attention to a number of soil-related, including soil compaction, issues which particularly concern the farming community. At Farm Zone, we have produced this blog post to inform Bright Maize...
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MY JOB IS: SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR
An interview with Rod Crossley, Senior Technical Advisor at Bright Maize What is your day-to-day job at Bright Maize? I see my role as being a link between the farmer/farm manager and the maize seed producer. I spend a lot of time in the field, as it were, working...
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TRADING – TRADE TALKS KEEP FARMERS GUESSING
As the coronavirus crisis continues, it’s easy to forget that the UK government is in the middle of renegotiating its trading relationships with the rest of the world. The country finally leaves the European single market and customs union on December 31 (the end of...
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GEORGE BARHAM AND THE EXPRESS COUNTRY MILK COMPANY
In this second part of Farm Zone’s ‘pioneers in agriculture’ series, we look at the life of George Barham – founder of Express Dairies Express Dairies was, in its day, one of the biggest names in the business. Back when milk floats did the rounds, its distinctive blue...
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A DAIRY FARMER’S PERSPECTIVE – FARMING THROUGH THE COVID-19 CRISIS
Farm Zone speaks to dairy farmer and kennel owner John Bayley, to find out how the agricultural economy is faring during the coronavirus crisis. John Bayley – together with his son Richard – has just taken succession of the tenancy of the 600-acre Castle Farm. The...
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FARMING THROUGH CORONA-CRISIS
The coronavirus crisis raises many questions for farming and the wider agricultural community. For the immediate future, many farmers are worried. Can they keep working? Can they hire the labour that will be needed for rapidly approaching harvests? Are we going to be...
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TOM WILLIAMS AND THE 1947 AGRICULTURAL ACT
This is the first of a series of posts that Farm Zone will be writing in the coming months on pioneers in the agricultural sector. Each article will look at a significant player in British agriculture from recent history – some well known, some less so. This article...
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Phil Garnsworthy, Professor of Dairy Science at the University of Nottingham, separates the facts from the fiction when it comes to dairy farming
One of the keynote speakers at the recent annual Maize Grower’s Association conference, which this year was sponsored by Bright Maize, was Phil Garnsworthy – Professor of Dairy Science at the University of Nottingham. Prof. Garnsworthy offered deep insights into the...
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SPONSORING THE MAIZE CONFERENCE 2020
By Laura Drury – Commercial Manager, Bright Maize It was a great pleasure for Bright Maize to be able to sponsor Maize Conference 2020, the annual event organised by the Maize Growers’ Association which took place at Hilton East Midlands Airport Hotel near Derby in...
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A CONVERSATION WITH NUNTON FARM DAIRY
What are the issues in dairy farming at the moment? And is diversification one of the solutions? At Farm Zone, we recently spoke to Nunton Farm Dairy – a key customer of Bright Maize – to find out. Nunton Farm Dairy is a 1,200 acre dairy operation near Salisbury run...
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