by Jonathan Holmes | May 30, 2021 | Equine management
Has the behaviour of your horse changed this spring? If we consider how grass grows, then a greater understanding can be gained of our horses’ behaviour. Many customers from around the country (more than 20 now this year) have contacted me asking for advice as their...
by Jonathan Holmes | Apr 15, 2021 | Soil
Five years I was asked to help investigate problems on a farm where the son had taken over a few years before and had been moving away from a plough-based system into organic manure applications, a minimum tillage regimen, and was considering cover crops. He...
by Jonathan Holmes | Feb 9, 2021 | Grassland Management
Investing in grass tissue tests to find out what nutrients are, or crucially are not, available to your horses is crucial. Paying attention to the detailed management of your grass sward can help you produce healthy, happy animals. Tissue testing grass in the spring...
by Jonathan Holmes | Jan 11, 2021 | Soil
I have long been advocating the imperative to match cultivation strategy to soil type as in the schematic below. The photographs later in this article highlight this concept really well. They certainly demonstrate what the cost is of implementing inappropriate...
by Jonathan Holmes | Dec 15, 2020 | Dog Training
Ever had the feeling that you are just not on the same wavelength as your dog, and wondered why? Your dearly beloved doesn’t want for anything. And yet still does exactly what it wants, which is not what you want! A few apt words from the chorus of Spandau...
