by Jonathan Holmes | Apr 1, 2019 | Company News
Lordington Park Agronomy has chosen Hope Pastures as its Charity of the Year – supporting the horse & donkey sanctuary to help animals live their best lives healthily. Hope Pastures in Leeds rescues, rehabilitates and re-homes horses, ponies and donkeys in...
by Jonathan Holmes | Feb 14, 2019 | Equine management, Grassland Management
Laminitis is a crippling disorder that causes the soft tissues within a horse’s hoof to swell and weaken. Dietary management is one of the best ways to prevent laminitis. So let’s take a look at horses and their diet… Horses are fundamentally...
by Jonathan Holmes | Jan 8, 2019 | Grassland Management
“Globally averaged concentrations of CO2 reached 403.3 parts per million (ppm) in 2016, up from 400.00 ppm in 2015 because of a combination of human activities and a strong El Niño event,” according to The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, the UN weather agency’s annual...
by Jonathan Holmes | Jan 2, 2019 | Grassland Management
“There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average” Stephen Hawking A sobering thought when we are trying to feed our horses grass for as long as possible. To weather proof our soils for the benefit of the grass, and...
by Jonathan Holmes | Jul 20, 2018 | Grassland Management
Whatever your soil type, mismanagement can rapidly deplete the soil fertility and create an unproductive environment for any crop to grown in. Over the millennia, the mineral particles that created soil will have experienced different weather patterns, therefore the...
