Bath and West Shows Ltd. are delighted to welcome Oliver Seeds as the title seed sponsor of Grassland UK to be held on 10 May 2018.

North Wales dairy farmer Huw Williams of Dinas Farm has benefitted from reseeding a 2.8ha (seven acre) field last September, by the side of the busy A487 south of Caernarfon – zero grazing it once, cutting it for silage four times and letting the cows graze between second and third cut of silage and for a final time two weeks ago (Wednesday 12 October).

Gwynedd beef and sheep farmer Gwyn Parry has won the All Wales Big Bale Silage competition for 2016, with silage cut from a field growing the Fortress seed mixture from Oliver Seeds

Arthur Owen and his cows still grazing high quality grass in mid-September

With 320 dairy cows and 700 breeding ewes on 244ha (600 acres), John Thompson and his brother Andrew of Softley Farm, Butterknowle, Bishop Auckland, have to make sure there is enough high quality grass and conserved forage to feed throughout the year.

Long-term grass suits heifer-rearing dairy farm

Idris Evans producing meat from grass at 1200ft

Landmark – Leys for diverse situations

Diwan, an intermediate perennial ryegrass variety bred by Danish breeders DLF, is the only new entry into the tetraploid category of forage grasses, in the 2016 Recommended Grass and Clover Lists for England and Wales.

It is not always possible to reseed a sward as it tails off in production and quality, but there are times when overseeding can be just the right approach.

Farmers looking to reseed grass fields this autumn should consider ploughing now to give a six-week break, to eliminate any threat from frit fly this autumn says Rod Bonshor, general manager of Oliver Seeds.

Catch crop ryegrass for cutting and grazing

Versatile grass mixture provides grazing and silage

Two-year leys are producing tonnes of conserved forage of high nutritional value and helping reduce feed costs on one Lincolnshire estate

Boost milk from home-grown forage with high yielding short-term leys

Growing grass mixtures purely for cutting can provide tonnes of top class silage in no time at all.

Profitable sheep farming depends on having good, nutritious grass growth throughout the year - with plenty in spring post-lambing, in summer for growing lambs and in autumn for flushing ewes.

Don’t allow your grass fields to under perform in 2016.