Getting more from grassland
	IMPROVE the quality of your grassland and significantly increase your profitability. That was the message from ACT's grass products manager Neil Matson who addressed an ACT-hosted farmers' meeting at Folly Gate, Near Okehampton in Devon.

	Don’t forget about manure
	MAKE sure you incorporate manure management into your grassland management programme - that's the advice from Colin Bowers, marketing specialist at Dow Agrosciences.

	Grass helps control costs
	THE Button family are amongst the very best dairy farmers in the South West and appreciate the value of grass as a means of keeping costs under control and maximising productivity, as South West Farmer found out on a recent visit to their farm in Cornwall.

What a year for farmland

THIS year has been an exciting one for farmland values, which have increased by an average of 30% across Great Britain, according to Penny Dart of Savills farms department.

The country can vanish, says CLA

THE UK countryside could change out of all recognition and we may not be able to provide enough food to feed ourselves or the rest of the world unless budgets to support the provision of agricultural and environmental goods are maintained, warns CLA, the rural economy expert.