This week BGS and the Creedy Associates team hosted 64 visitors at the BGS Nutrient Wise Demos site in Devon (with our desired 15-25 people in each group to allow everyone to be involved in discussions). The visitors were able to see demo plots on manure application methods and introduction of clover into existing swards.

BGS Forage Legume Meeting on Lucerne and Red Clover (held on the 16th June)

In one short sentence, Wil Armitage summed up what a fantastic crop lucerne is at the BGS Lucerne and Red Clover Farm Walk, attended by more than 40 people, at his Leicestershire dairy farm. "Lucerne gave me the confidence to go organic."

Our friends at The Grazing Advice Partnership (GAP) are holding a free-to-enter photographic competition aimed at celebrating the role that native breeds of farm livestock play in conserving our natural environment, landscape and cultural history. Closing date for entries July 30th 2010.

The SIXTY-SIXTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the British Grassland Society will be held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, on Sunday 4th July, 2010, at 7pm.

AGENDA

1. Minutes of the Sixty-fifth Annual General Meeting held at Greenmount Campus, Belfast on 29^th June 2009 

2. Matters arising