Sheep TMR bolstered by home-grown beans
Feeding a TMR to sheep based partly on home-grown beans has helped cut costs, improve animal health and meet sustainability goals on Myerscough College farms.
Learn moreIntercropping for protein yield resilience: peas, beans and cereals in a changing climate
Through our company’s involvement in the Nitrogen Climate Smart (NCS) Project, Kelvin Cave works with many industry partners in the drive to increase the national acreage of home-grown proteins.
Learn moreFeeding wholecrop beans in a TMR for calves
In this edition, we report on some on-farm trials he subsequently carried out at his North Lingy Moor Farm near Richmond. In these trials – undertaken as part of the Nitrogen Climate Smart (NCS) Project – he used wholecrop beans as part of a total mixed ration and fed it to calves from about four months of age.
Learn moreProflake NC: Getting the best from very dry cereals and pulses
Getting the best from very dry cereals and pulses using Kelvin Cave’s Proflake NC
Learn moreThe moment everything just clicks into place
There’s logic to producing your own home-grown feeds.
Ever-more challenging and unpredictable weather conditions, combined with volatile feed and fertiliser markets mean self-sufficiency is not only a smart move, but one that will keep you on top of your game.
The Benefits of Beans
Beans are becoming an important source of protein in more crop rotations and getting the agronomy right is key to consistent performance. Todd Jex from Agrii gives his insights for success.
Learn moreTaking control of what comes in…and what goes out
Wagyu cattle and home-grown feeds have helped a Durham family side-step market prices and turn the fortunes of their livestock and arable farm.
Learn moreCombining the benefits of protein crops and bi-cropping
Keen to rear his beef cattle on home-grown proteins, Lancashire farmer, Luke Gardner has also thrown bi-cropping into the mix. The outcome has been cut costs, increased performance and greater benefits in agronomy.
Learn moreWhole-crop beans for roughage and protein
Whole-cropping beans was not the natural choice for Northumberland farmer, Edward Carins from Broom Hall in Black Callerton, north west of Newcastle. As a livestock producer, arable farmer and farm contractor – operating in partnership with his brother, Ridley – he had all the equipment needed to harvest, dry and store the beans and hadn’t given whole-cropping a thought.
Learn moreGrowing soya replacements for a farm in better heart
Arable and beef producers, Peter and Richard Barker, have radically changed direction on their North Yorkshire family farm. And despite switching away from palm kernel and soya…
Learn more