by Jonathan Holmes | May 7, 2020 | Grassland Management
Stock farmers should all be aware of the problems that staggers (hypomagnesaemia or grass tetany) causes in cows when cattle are turned out on fresh grass in the spring. In cattle, symptoms usually occur around calving. This usually coincides when the uptake of...
by Jonathan Holmes | Mar 12, 2020 | Grassland Management
Got waterlogged grassland? To function as a growing environment, the soil needs to contain 25 per cent air and 25 per cent water. The air is essential for microbial respiration and the water is essential to allow the dissolved nutrients to move from the soil into the...
by Jonathan Holmes | Feb 5, 2020 | Soil
The UK’s new Agriculture Bill, described as ‘one of the most important environmental reforms for many years’, will reward British farmers who protect soil. The Bill, which received its second reading in the House of Commons on 3 February 2020, will replace the EU’s...
by Jonathan Holmes | Nov 10, 2019 | Company News
Jonathan Holmes is hosting a one-day training day – Agroecology & Conservation Agriculture In Practice – at the KP Club in Pocklington on Thursday 12 February 2020. It will be the first in a series of training days hosted by Lordington Park Agronomy...
by Jonathan Holmes | Oct 10, 2019 | Equine management
I have recently been encountering more and more horses that have problems that appear to be associated with a lack of boron in their diet. This is especially relevant in unshod animals, as well as older animals or those suffering from laminitis. Soil analysis has...
