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<blockquote data-quote="Great In Grass" data-source="post: 2601522" data-attributes="member: 79"><p>[ATTACH=full]348246[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Continuous breeding innovation</strong></span></p><p></p><p>The 2016/17 Recommended Grass and Clover List for England and Wales has been published – and once again varieties bred by Barenbrug UK feature highly throughout.</p><p></p><p>Entering the list for the first time are Glasker and Gosford – two brand new varieties of perennial ryegrass, which were developed by forage grass experts at Barenbrug in cooperation with the team at the Agri-Food and Bio-Sciences Institute (AFBI).</p><p></p><p>Other Barenbrug varieties that also appear on the list again include:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Clanrye, Dunluce, Glenariff, Moira and Seagoe, which have been established on hundreds of UK farms and created excellent swards</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Caledon, Glenarm and Ramore, which were added to the Recommended List for England and Wales in 2015</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">And Fintona – the highest yielding ryegrass ever produced by any breeder.</li> </ul><p><a href="http://marketing.barenbrug.co.uk/acton/ct/18552/s-007d-1606/Bct/q-001d/l-0019:bb2/ct4_0/1?sid=K4TlYQIbI" target="_blank">[ATTACH=full]348248[/ATTACH]</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://marketing.barenbrug.co.uk/acton/ct/18552/s-007d-1606/Bct/q-001d/l-0019:bb2/ct5_0/1?sid=K4TlYQIbI" target="_blank">[ATTACH=full]348250[/ATTACH]</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]348252[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]348254[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This dairy farm north of Chichester, in West Sussex, is hoping to turn Grass into Gold this summer after joining our revolutionary Grass into Gold scheme, which explores the impact that proactive grassland management can have on yields and profitability, and they are partnered with one of our forage grass experts.</p><p></p><p>Together, the Cucumber Farm team and Barenbrug have renovated four-hectares of pasture to assess the difference that reseeding fields can make to grass quality, grazing and forage yields, and crucially, milk production.</p><p></p><p>Located in the Lavant Valley, just north of Chichester, Cucumber Farm has a 150-strong herd of British Fresions and a few Jersey dairy cows, each of which produce around 6000 litres of milk each year. Keen to increase the size of the farm’s herd using the same area of grassland (around 50 hectares), Jim Thomson, Herd Manager, decided to sign up to Grass into Gold after hearing about it from Lucy West at Duffields Animal Feeds.</p><p></p><p>Wanting to learn how to get more from grass, Jim’s ultimate ambition is to enable the farm to make full use of extended grazing and keep its livestock outdoors for as long as possible. Currently the team at Cucumber Farm has a pre-grazing residual target of around 2800kg DM/ha. This allows the farm to maintain the highest quality grass possible. By ensuring the pasture is harvested at the ‘three-leaf’ stage they can keep dead material at the base of the sward to a minimum. This approach also prevents seed head production, again helping to maintain a high vegetative standard of grass before the herd is put out and subsequently moved around under a rotational system. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://marketing.barenbrug.co.uk/acton/ct/18552/s-007d-1606/Bct/q-001d/l-0019:bb2/ct6_0/1?sid=K4TlYQIbI" target="_blank">[ATTACH=full]348248[/ATTACH]</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]348252[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]348256[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>At our 15-acre Cropvale trials site, we're is mid-way through a two-year programme assessing the suitability of different grass varieties and mixtures as feedstocks for anaerobic digestion (AD) plants.</p><p></p><p>The trials was established in autumn 2014 and will run for two harvest years. Plots of Italian ryegrass, hybrid ryegrass and tall fescue have been sown alongside a number of areas containing mixtures of these varieties. Five cuts were taken in 2015 and observations from 2015 suggest that the mixtures generally out-yielded the straight varieties, but 100% Italian ryegrass performed best of all.</p><p></p><p>Achieving high yields of dry matter per hectare is the key objective for farmers entering the AD field, so Barenbrug is investigating how to achieve extra bulk and how to support farmers looking to branch out into this fast growing aspect of the agriculture industry.</p><p></p><p>With interest and planning applications for AD plants continuing to grow, with current predictions of double growth by 2020, now is an ideal time to find out more about our trials and how grass can assist.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://marketing.barenbrug.co.uk/acton/ct/18552/s-007d-1606/Bct/q-001d/l-0019:bb2/ct7_0/1?sid=K4TlYQIbI" target="_blank">[ATTACH=full]348258[/ATTACH]</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Great In Grass, post: 2601522, member: 79"] [attach=full]348246[/attach] [SIZE=6][B]Continuous breeding innovation[/B][/SIZE] The 2016/17 Recommended Grass and Clover List for England and Wales has been published – and once again varieties bred by Barenbrug UK feature highly throughout. Entering the list for the first time are Glasker and Gosford – two brand new varieties of perennial ryegrass, which were developed by forage grass experts at Barenbrug in cooperation with the team at the Agri-Food and Bio-Sciences Institute (AFBI). Other Barenbrug varieties that also appear on the list again include: [LIST] [*]Clanrye, Dunluce, Glenariff, Moira and Seagoe, which have been established on hundreds of UK farms and created excellent swards [*]Caledon, Glenarm and Ramore, which were added to the Recommended List for England and Wales in 2015 [*]And Fintona – the highest yielding ryegrass ever produced by any breeder. [/LIST] [URL='http://marketing.barenbrug.co.uk/acton/ct/18552/s-007d-1606/Bct/q-001d/l-0019:bb2/ct4_0/1?sid=K4TlYQIbI'][attach=full]348248[/attach][/URL] [URL='http://marketing.barenbrug.co.uk/acton/ct/18552/s-007d-1606/Bct/q-001d/l-0019:bb2/ct5_0/1?sid=K4TlYQIbI'][attach=full]348250[/attach][/URL] [attach=full]348252[/attach] [attach=full]348254[/attach] This dairy farm north of Chichester, in West Sussex, is hoping to turn Grass into Gold this summer after joining our revolutionary Grass into Gold scheme, which explores the impact that proactive grassland management can have on yields and profitability, and they are partnered with one of our forage grass experts. Together, the Cucumber Farm team and Barenbrug have renovated four-hectares of pasture to assess the difference that reseeding fields can make to grass quality, grazing and forage yields, and crucially, milk production. Located in the Lavant Valley, just north of Chichester, Cucumber Farm has a 150-strong herd of British Fresions and a few Jersey dairy cows, each of which produce around 6000 litres of milk each year. Keen to increase the size of the farm’s herd using the same area of grassland (around 50 hectares), Jim Thomson, Herd Manager, decided to sign up to Grass into Gold after hearing about it from Lucy West at Duffields Animal Feeds. Wanting to learn how to get more from grass, Jim’s ultimate ambition is to enable the farm to make full use of extended grazing and keep its livestock outdoors for as long as possible. Currently the team at Cucumber Farm has a pre-grazing residual target of around 2800kg DM/ha. This allows the farm to maintain the highest quality grass possible. By ensuring the pasture is harvested at the ‘three-leaf’ stage they can keep dead material at the base of the sward to a minimum. This approach also prevents seed head production, again helping to maintain a high vegetative standard of grass before the herd is put out and subsequently moved around under a rotational system. [URL='http://marketing.barenbrug.co.uk/acton/ct/18552/s-007d-1606/Bct/q-001d/l-0019:bb2/ct6_0/1?sid=K4TlYQIbI'][attach=full]348248[/attach][/URL] [attach=full]348252[/attach] [attach=full]348256[/attach] At our 15-acre Cropvale trials site, we're is mid-way through a two-year programme assessing the suitability of different grass varieties and mixtures as feedstocks for anaerobic digestion (AD) plants. The trials was established in autumn 2014 and will run for two harvest years. Plots of Italian ryegrass, hybrid ryegrass and tall fescue have been sown alongside a number of areas containing mixtures of these varieties. Five cuts were taken in 2015 and observations from 2015 suggest that the mixtures generally out-yielded the straight varieties, but 100% Italian ryegrass performed best of all. Achieving high yields of dry matter per hectare is the key objective for farmers entering the AD field, so Barenbrug is investigating how to achieve extra bulk and how to support farmers looking to branch out into this fast growing aspect of the agriculture industry. With interest and planning applications for AD plants continuing to grow, with current predictions of double growth by 2020, now is an ideal time to find out more about our trials and how grass can assist. [URL='http://marketing.barenbrug.co.uk/acton/ct/18552/s-007d-1606/Bct/q-001d/l-0019:bb2/ct7_0/1?sid=K4TlYQIbI'][attach=full]348258[/attach][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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