Giving Nature

a helping hand

To restore the soil to its optimum efficiency
and promote quality grass, crops and livestock

Arable Crops

Wheat

Wheat is probably the world's most important staple crop. It is a cool season crop and grows well in the UK climate which, owing to milder winters, favours autumn sown varieties.......

Barley

Like all cereals, barley has been progressively bred and developed from former wild grasses. In this case, the process has been going on since Neolithic times.....

Oats

The English lexicographer Samuel Johnson in his famous dictionary of 1755 defined the oat as "a grain which, in England, is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people"......

Oilseed Rape

A relative newcomer to UK agriculture, OSR, a brassica, has gone from almost unheard of in the 1970s to the fourth largest crop today, as can be witnessed by the sea of yellow in the spring.....

Maize

Over 100,000 hectares are now devoted to maize grown mainly in England and Wales. It has become a very important silage crop; second in importance only to grass. In ideal circumstances.....

Sugar Beet

For many years sugar beet has been an important cash crop to English farmers and most is grown in eastern England and the West Midlands. The area of land growing sugar beet has reduced.....

Forage Crops

Field Science ‘cut its teeth’ treating pastures to improve the quality and nutritional value of grazing ground and therefore of livestock. Producing crops of a higher nutritional standard.....

Other Arable

The decision about which non-mainstream crops to grow depends entirely on the main focus of the business and whether or not there is a healthy market for the crop.....