Case Studies

Last updated: 27 Sep 2021

Nutrient management: maximising your resources

Read how one farmer in Leicestershire has integrated his poultry and arable business to maximise his resources and create an efficient sustainable system. Read More...

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Last updated: 08 Sep 2021

Reducing input costs with nutrient management

A good nutrient management plan can help you maximise organic materials and reduce the reliance on often expensive bagged fertilizer. Read this case study for more information. Read More...

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Last updated: 18 Jun 2021

Enhancing dairy productivity using homegrown forage

Feed Adviser Mark Scott explains how he has worked on several strategies to reduce purchased feed inputs whilst improving performance. Click here to read more. Read More...

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Last updated: 13 Apr 2021

New farm case studies 2020/21

CSF and LEAF have been working in partnership to produce a series of farm case studies. Click here to read more about the case studies or to watch the videos on YouTube. Read More...

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Last updated: 17 Jul 2019

Top 10 ammonia case studies from Catchment Sensitive Farming

The CSF partnership has published 10 case studies on reducing ammonia emissions from farming. These cover a range of sectors, areas and techniques to address ammonia losses to air. Read More...

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Last updated: 30 May 2019

Reducing Emissions Through Silage Improvements

Alan Jenkins is an independent feed adviser who has worked in ruminant feed for 32 years. Employed in West Wales by leading animal feed manufacturers, he advises dairy units and other producers with forage-based systems. Read More...

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Last updated: 14 Aug 2018

Two farms, 1000 acres, 1 nutrient management plan

Phil Latham is a dairy farmer from Cheshire. He farms a combined total of 1000 acres between two very different farms, with one, holistic approach to the management of nutrients across both sites. We visited him to find out how it all works. Read More...

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Last updated: 29 Jan 2016

Feed Adviser improves milk yields

Herd milk yields increased from 8,500 litres to 10,500 litres with better fertility (Calving Interval down from 440 to 396 days) Read More...

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Last updated: 18 Dec 2015

Nutrient management on an organic mixed farm

This has been a challenge but we are achieving productivity similar to pre-organic conversion, due to soil and nutrient management and sustainable cropping rotations to maintain and build soil fertility Read More...

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Last updated: 11 Sep 2015

Making the most of organic manures II

Summerfield farm has been farmed by the Kitching family for three generations. Read how they have employed the use of contractors with sophisticated equipment to spread the manures in an accurate and timely manner. Read More...

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Last updated: 11 Sep 2015

Benefits of soil analysis

Peter and Jane Chapman are tenants on Thornton Grange Farm. The farm uses contractors for slurry spreading and for baling, but has its own combine. Peter seeks advice from an independent agronomist and nutritionist as required. Read More...

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