Amenity Grass Seeds
High QualityAmenity Grass Seed Sports Fields and Greens – Fine Lawns – Public Parks From finely manicured lawns to professional sports grounds – our range of amenity grass seeds are uniquely developed to ensure best performance for your application. Racecourses, rugby, football and cricket stadiums trust our wide range of grass seed to perform to […]
You Scream – Ice-Cream…
So you thought the Italians made the best Ice-Cream? It’s time to think again… Award-winning Downsview Farm are one of our customers, based on the outskirts of Lewes, Sussex. Downsview farm over 100 Friesian dairy cows to produce their highly successful Downsview Farmhouse brand of luxury dairy ice cream and popular creams and milks. They […]
Humbolt Forage Rye and IRG
One of our customers Mark Rowlands, based in Aberystwyth on the north coast of Wales, recently got in touch with us to let us know how is Humbolt Forage Rye crops was doing. This was sown late September 2021 as a nursing crop, to help bring through the Italian Ryegrass. He has just ensiled this, […]
Germinal Horizon Visit
St Catherine’s Seeds are among one of the first seed companies to have an invitation from Germinal to gather a group of farmers to attend their new grassland research centre near Melksham, Wiltshire. A group of 12 local farmers spent an hour or so in the classroom, initially to learn about Germinal and what they […]
Lucerne Event Success
Our first event of the year was great success. In partnership with Germinal we hosted a knowledge sharing day on growing Lucerne. By kind permission of one of our customers, Mr. Jack Bye & his son Alistair who opened their farm on the Cotswolds to over 70 – 80 farmers and merchants. Jack & Alistair […]
Lucerne – Saving Fertiliser Costs
Just 100 years to be an overnight success! The dramatic increase in fertiliser prices is not looking to slow down soon, many farmers are looking at medium- and longer-term alternatives. Some have said that this is a rude wake-up call to learn from what past generations before had done and done well. Lucerne has […]
First Silage Cut
Thanks to our client at Stanton Prior on the outskirts of Bath for sending us this wonderful video of this year’s first Silage cut. Alistair drilled our Germinal ABER HSG Multi-Cut silage mixture last autumn. This comprised of 2 Intermediate Perennials (AberZeus and AberSpey) as well as 2 Late Perennials (AberBAnn and AberGain). This is […]
Milk and Meat Production (video)
Our client, Mr. Arney, from Somerset, drilled our best-selling grass mixture for Milk and Meat Production, in the Autumn of 2020. Germinal’s AberHSG 1 was drilled at a rate of 15kg per acre. The mixture was made up of 3 Intermediate Perennials (AberZeus, AberWolf and Aber Green), 1 Late Perennial (AberGain) and AberDairy white clover
KALE or Fail?
Kale is an excellent producer of high-quality feed for dairy, it’s relatively short grazing height makes it ideal for grazing or fattening of lambs. It’s suitable for late Autumn grazing so helps to fill forage deficits. The Maris Kestrel variety has an excellent leaf-to-stem ration giving it the potential to provide a quality forage option. […]
The Swedes are Coming…
Don’t worry, Britt Ekland is not thumbing a life with ABBA! But if you’re still considering drilling forage stubble you have missed the window for Beets, but you still have time to plant some excellent Swedes in time for some excellent high-energy forage and/or winter feed. The low production costs combined with high dry matter […]
