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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 claim their secret is the happiness of their herd.

You may have seen the herd and ice cream making as part of the BBC series The Apprentice when contestants visited the farm to make their own.

Downsview are continually looking to increase their  grass forage production, the pictures below show the outstanding yield of grass being cut for early 2022 silage from an  Autumn 2021 re-seed of St Catherine’s Seeds Italian  Ryegrass blend of Fox & Kigezi. This mixture continually delivers superb results.

Learn more about Downsview Farm and their Ice Cream business in this Guardian article

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Recommended Lists

Our choice of high quality products is guided by AHDB. This ensures the seeds we deliver to you meet the highest standards.

Click the image below to download a copy of the latest Recommended Grass and Clover Lists for England and Wales 2024/25

Quality Silage

One of our customers sent this video showing how one of our most popular silage mixtures is filling the silage clamp on this  300+ dairy farm in Somerset.

ABER HSG 2 Multi Cut  mixture comprising of:

  • 3.5Kg AberSpey Perennial Ryegrass (T)
  • 4.0Kg AberZeus Perennial Ryegrass
  • 3.5Kg AberAvon Perennial Ryegrass
  • 4.0Kg AberGain Perennial Ryegrass (T)


These varieties feature in the 2022/23 Recommended List and fill this clamp with high quality, high protein silage.

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