by David Edwards | Aug 6, 2020 | blog
Frans de Boer is managing director at DB Agri Ltd, based at Wappingthorn Farm, farming 800 acres, with an Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant in West Sussex. He is also an advisor for Bright Maize customers – selling Bright Maize seed to other AD plants and helping...
by David Edwards | Jun 24, 2020 | blog
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...
by David Edwards | Apr 17, 2020 | blog
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...
by David Edwards | Sep 24, 2019 | blog
The good Dairy farming is a motor for the rural economy In the UK, 13,000 dairy farmers manage nearly 2 million dairy cows to produce over 14 billion litres of milk each year with a wholesale value of £8.8 billion. And that’s before it has been processed into saleable...
by David Edwards | Jul 17, 2019 | blog
Animal products have an image problem. For a long time, there has been increasing consumer concern about farm animal welfare. More recently, this has been bolstered with a growing focus on environmental concerns. A spate of alarmist news stories were published last...