by David Edwards | Mar 11, 2021 | blog
Mark Woodin runs a large privately owned estate, Chilton Home Farms on the Buckinghamshire/ Oxfordshire border. He came from a farming family, and has seen long service at Chilton, where he started working 30 years’ ago, at the age of 24. The estate is a mixed dairy...
by David Edwards | Nov 24, 2020 | blog
Following on from Bright Maize’s successful recent open day, we spoke to Tim Stephens of Wessex Water, and took a broader look at nitrate pollution… We all know something about the problems of water pollution from agriculture. When chemicals from pesticides and excess...
by David Edwards | Jan 29, 2020 | blog
by Rod Crossley, senior technical advisor at Bright Maize Maize growers in the UK are faced with two big issues this year. The obvious one is the unusual weather. The second issue is smaller in scope but no less important, and that is seed dressings. In this article,...
by David Edwards | Dec 3, 2019 | blog
In a remote corner of Ukraine, a highly automated facility processes seed day and night The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast region in central Ukraine is extremely remote. It boasts some of the most fertile agricultural land in the world – with wide expanses of deep, black soil....
by David Edwards | Aug 8, 2019 | blog
In the modern era, when we think of farm dogs, we tend to think of medium to large dogs that specialise in herding livestock, particularly sheep. But in the past, dogs of all breeds and shapes and sizes were to be found on farms. In fact, almost all dog breeds were...
