Countryside Seeds Ltd

Countryside Seeds Ltd

As of the 1st July a slight change to the business, it's become incorporated and with it a change of name. Farm machinery sales have not been a part of Farm Equip's business for a number of years and we felt now was the time for a new name to reflect more of what we do, so Countryside Seeds Limited was born.

We still offer friendly service and advice with up to date products at keen prices.

Company History

Farm Equip was launched by myself (Kevin) on the 1st January 1980. Initially selling farm consumables from the back of a yellow transit van.

Over the past few years the business has become almost predominately the sale of seed in its varies guises where it be a single bag of lawn seed to tonnes of grass/cereal seed.

I am in the very lucky position to be a distributor for some of the UK’s leading seed houses which include Barenbrug UK Ltd, DLF Trifolium Ltd, Grainseed Ltd and Soya UK to name a few.

I am more than happy to work with the customer on compiling their own mixture.

To contact me you may PM through the forum or I am very happy to be telephoned on 07881 804442.
Email: [email protected]

As like a lot of you I'm self employed so no 9-5 here so please telephone at your convenience.
 
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Great In Grass

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New economically priced Maize variety for 2017, CODIGREEN.

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Great In Grass

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Our 2017 "Your Countryside" catalogue is attached "A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GAME COVER, ENVIRONMENTAL, GREEN MANURE AND FORAGE SEEDS".

Feel free to PM or call with any queries.
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Great In Grass

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Illustration on how biting off the tops of plants impacts their roots, and how if you graze short enough, the plant won’t have enough roots to rebound and produce more leafy material.

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Great In Grass

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New highly productive mixture available for silage.

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A new grass mixture designed for silage production is available from the forage grass team at Barenbrug this spring. Hybrid 4x4 is a highly productive hybrid ryegrass cutting ley, ideally suited to three- or four-year rotation.

Capable of producing yields that are up to 10% higher than traditional ryegrass mixtures, Hybrid 4x4 is made from a blend of Barsilo (a diploid ryegrass) and three tetraploid ryegrass species – Kirial, Aston Crusader and Novial. These deep rooting grass varieties make efficient use of soil nutrients, creating the ultimate medium-term silage mixture.

Capable of growing at temperatures as low as 5°C, Hybrid 4x4 can give farmers a long growing season – enabling them to produce silage throughout the year. With a tight heading date range and excellent disease resistance, Hybrid 4x4 can deliver up to four cuts per annum with a first cut possible in early May, and a potential yield of up to 16t DM/ha in the first year. The mixture also provides multiple exits and entries for slurry / digestate application, enabling better use of home produced nutrients.
 

Great In Grass

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DLF's 2017 HF Seeds catalogue now available for England, Wales & Scotland, let me know if you would like to receive a hard copy in the post.

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Great In Grass

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Location
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DLF’s ProNitro® used on all their agricultural overseeding grass mixtures has been nominated for Innovation Award 2017 the new nitrogen seed coating technology from DLF, is one of three nominations for a prestigious innovation award.

The Innovation Award “Innovatieprijs Sportaccommodaties” is intended to stimulate new concepts in the sports sector. The Dutch Trade Association for Sport and Cultivation Technology BSNC (Branchevereniging Sport en Cultuurtechniek) and two other organizations behind the award want by this award to strengthen the focus on innovation in business, clients and users. Among the 12 entries, the jury made its evaluations based on originality and creativity, the reason for the innovation, practical value, promotion, discipline and effectiveness.

Nitrogen-coated seeds get away sooner

Growing a new field of turf is a waiting game. The challenge for seed scientists is to make the process faster and more reliable.



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ProNitro® combines high quality grass seed with nitrogen needed for fast effective establishment in a single seed coating. ProNitro® is both labour saving and cost effective.

A better solution is to alter the environment in favour of germinating grass seeds. We can’t change the fields in which our customers sow their seeds but we can use technology to give our seeds a head start. Coating seeds in nitrogen fertiliser give the newly germinated grass plants all the nutrition they need to develop early strong roots. It’s like sending each seed out into the world with its own packed lunch.



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In trials, our own ProNitro® seed coating (launched in 2016) produced up to 30% more root growth and up to 30% more viable plants than an uncoated reference. Trial fields established faster and better, and were ready for playing sports or grazing cattle sooner. We estimate that this translates to an extra 30 to 50 playing hours or a 15% to 20% increase in forage yield in the vital first year of growth.

Seed coating is a cost-effective, precision approach

There’s very little waste when you coat a seed in nitrogen. The fertilizer feeds the seed not the weeds that surround it. It’s a time-saver too. You sow the seed and the fertilizer in one operation instead of two.

Since the grass plants grow faster, they take up nutrients more quickly. A field sown with nitrogen-coated seeds produces less nutrient run-off and environmental impact than one that’s subject to a traditional scattergun application of fertiliser.



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Great In Grass

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Barenbrug has over 2,500 plots at their Cropvale trial site, these include a complete screening trial for new prospective varieties. In addition there are demonstration plots that will replicate yield information about the performance of different species compared to known varieties like Tyrella and Dunluce.

A very interesting 15 minute video from a few years ago.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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