by Jamie Green | Sep 26, 2022 | blog
Feeding the nation has more or less been taken for granted in the post war years; but that premise is now being challenged as pressure mounts on production, supply chains and retail prices. We thought it would be worth revisiting by way of this review the subject of a...
by Bright Maize Staff | Aug 31, 2022 | blog
Why make the most of grass…? First and foremost, it’s a lucrative resource. As Charlie Dolphin writes in the introduction to our new grass seed brochure, grass is ‘the livestock farmer’s most sustainable, cost-effective feed’. There are other reasons too –...
by Bright Maize Staff | Aug 23, 2022 | blog
Food inflation hasn’t been going up this quickly for over a decade – and the worst is yet to come. A flurry of recent studies furnish some statistics. Consumer group Which? found that supermarket groceries in February this year were on average 3.14% more...
by Bright Maize Staff | Jul 26, 2022 | blog
Forage and grazing can determine the difference between profit and loss on livestock farms where margins are under constant pressure. With no inputs exempt from our inflationary times, Mike Sims – recently appointed to Bright Maize as grass specialist – tells us about...
by Bright Maize Staff | Jul 20, 2022 | blog
Dr Tom Adair – a writer living in France – reviews this book for Bright Maize. The contents of the book do not necessarily reflect the views of Bright Maize, its employees or others associated with the company. Why do birds matter? There are scientific – good...
by Bright Maize Staff | Jul 8, 2022 | blog
As part of our pioneer series, we look at one of the UK’s leading agricultural educationalists, Dr Tony Harris, who died earlier this year and believed agrobusiness alumni should rank alongside the best of any other industry The high standing of Harper Adams...
