Gallery 2025

Winners’ Farm Walk

Corporate Members

Agrovista

Agrovista UK Limited is a leading supplier of agronomy advice, seed, crop protection products and precision farming services. Working in partnership with arable, forage, fruit, vegetable, horticultural and amenity sectors, Agrovista is committed to helping customers manage their businesses more efficiently and more profitably. We are dedicated to our company purpose - releasing agronomic potential. With roots originating more than 60 years ago, Agrovista offers a unique blend of local experience, research-based expertise, customer-based knowledge and trusted relationships; practising values of honesty, integrity and fairness across all aspects of the business. Agrovista also embraces care for the wider environment, with an understanding of the important role now played by all those who manage the land, through dedicated initiatives such as Agrovista Soil Health and Agrova Decision Support services.

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Amcor

More than anyone, farmers understand how important it is to take care of the environment in which we work and live. Amcor are constantly working to provide new balewrapping and sheeting solutions for the modern farmer. Meeting customer needs and advancing towards innovation and sustainability goals, our products incorporate recycled content, Pro technology and convenient sleeve packaging.

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Barenbrug

Barenbrug UK Ltd is a grass seed producer supplying more than 4000 tonnes a year into the amenity and forage markets. As a plant breeder, it creates new grasses, legumes, and forage mixtures at 14 breeding and research stations worldwide, including in Northern Ireland since 1991, and trials them on farm. The company has a strong research focus and one of its research sites is at Cropvale in Worcestershire, where numerous species, varieties and mixtures have been tested since 2007.

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Califert

LKAB Minerals supplies a range of easy-to-apply granulated products for the agricultural and horticultural sectors. The Calcifert range is best known for its flagship granulated lime product, Calcifert Lime, a highly reactive and pure agricultural lime product, made using 100% British lime from the Peak District – well-proven to effectively balance soil acidity and regulate pH in grassland and arable soils. Other products available include Calcifert Sulphur and Calcifert Mag, as well as high-specification products containing key trace elements, humates and bio-stimulants. LKAB Minerals is an international industrial minerals group with a leading position in a number of product application.

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Campey Agriculture

Campey Agriculture supply an extensive range of quality, specialist agricultural machinery and farming equipment, working with some of the industry’s biggest brands. They will work with you to find the machinery that will best suit your needs, understanding that each and every customer has unique requirements. The agricultural machinery industry is always evolving, and each customer has different requirements, depending on the type of land they farm and farming methods they prefer. Campey Agriculture supply a variety of productive, innovative, money saving agricultural machinery and try to ensure every customer finds the relevant machine they are looking for.

X: @CampeyAgri
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Corteva

Corteva helps livestock farmers grow the best quality and quantity home-grown forage. Our market leading weed control solutions for grassland optimise grass growth by giving effective long term control of docks, thistles, nettles, buttercups, dandelions and ragwort with products like Doxstar Pro, Thistlex, Forefront T and Grazon Pro. We have wider spectrum herbicides for new sown leys with Leystar and Envy. Our Pioneer branded silage inoculants help to further optimize production of quality silage and reduce losses. Our significant research and development effort will see a number of new technologies launched to benefit the livestock farmer in the coming years.
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Crystalyx

Crystalyx supplies a high energy form of supplementation to the main forage diets of cows, beef, sheep, goats, and deer in a very palatable form. The confidence in Crystalyx products comes from the extensive research that has been carried out on our products over the last 25 years. It is this independent research that give credibility to the benefits of Crystalyx and allows livestock farmers to put their trust in Crystalyx products.Crystalyx feed blocks are a convenient way of providing supplementation to livestock 24 hours a day. The product is licked little and often, constantly supplementing the animal and stimulating the rumen micro-organisms, making the best of home-grown forages and balancing forage deficiencies.
Facebook: @CrystalyxUK
Instagram: @Crystalyxuk
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DeLaval

DeLaval, established in 1883, is a global leader with a presence in over 100 markets, offering integrated milking solutions. Our aim is to empower dairy farmers to achieve optimal productivity, enhance animal welfare, and enable more sustainable operations.We provide dairy farmers with a comprehensive range of products and services to support all aspects of their operations. Our portfolio includes milking systems, feeding solutions, barn equipment, and herd management tools. These utilise advanced technology and research to help farmers improve milk quality, enhance animal health, and increase overall farm performance – enabling farmers to achieve more with less. For example, our VMS™ V300 robotic milking system revolutionises dairy farming by offering efficiency, precision, and reliability. This enables farmers to optimise milk production while reducing labour and resources. Additionally, our DeLaval Plus system utilises artificial intelligence (AI) technology to alert farmers to cow health events and simplify herd management. It records each animal's behaviour, analyses data using AI, and facilitates quick identification of sick cows and those in heat.
Facebook: #DeLavalUKIE
Instagram: delaval_ukie
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DLF

DLF Seeds are a seed breeding and production company operating on a worldwide basis with grass and legume crops forming the core of the business. Other forage crops such as Fodder Beet, herbs and brassicas are also an important part of the portfolio. The DLF trials farm at Didbrook in Gloucester tests and evaluates many species for adaptability to UK conditions and is an integral part of the UK testing system that produces the recommended lists of many crops. Cover crops for soil health and fertility together with diverse species are all part of the DLF seed package.

X: @DLFSEEDS_UK
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Germinal

Germinal are specialists in grass and forage seed, working at ground level to share knowledge and expertise with customers, distributors and partners across agriculture and amenity. Germinal is a privately owned firm that works closely with IBERS at Aberystwyth University, funding near-market work for forage grass, red and white clovers. Germinal also conducts extensive trials via its research facility. The majority of Germinal’s grass seed is produced in the UK via a network of contract growers. However, it also works with international seed breeders to offer a broad range of species (such as chicory, kale and maize) and varieties.
X: @wearegerminal @GerminalUKAgri
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Lallemand

Lallemand Animal Nutrition is a global leader in microbial fermentation using yeast and bacteria in animal agriculture. Lallemand develops, produces and markets high-value yeast and bacteria products including probiotics, silage inoculants, yeast and yeast derivatives. These innovative solutions positively impact animal nutrition and well-being, forage management and the animal environment. Using sound science, proven results and knowledge from experience, Lallemand applies the right strains for the right applications to have the greatest impact for our customers. Lallemand Animal Nutrition is committed to optimising animal performance and well-being with specific, natural microbial product and service solutions.

X: @Magniva
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LIC

LIC UK specialises in dairy genetics sourced from its parent company in New Zealand. Sires are proven on commercial dairy farms worldwide, on both grazing and concentrate systems. The company is also involved in milk recording, business and grassland management, offering an AI service, farm consultancy and farm business software. Some 26% of annual income is spent on research and development each year. Through its Pasture to Profit network in the UK, it brings together like-minded dairy farmers to focus on growing and utilising more grass.
Twitter: @LIC_UK_Ltd
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Limagrain

Limagrain is a plant breeder and supplier of seeds to both livestock and arable farmers. It offers a full range of grass and forage seeds through its LG, Sinclair McGill and LG Monarch brands. Limagrain invests more than £215m a year in research worldwide, with plant breeding stations and trial sites across the UK, including the LG Innovation site in Lincolnshire. Here long-term forage quality trials have been instrumental in creating the LG Animal Nutrition (LGAN) portfolio of grass mixtures. The LGAN accreditation is awarded to products that offer a combination of improved nutritional value and excellent agronomic qualities.
X: @LGSeedsUK
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Nufarm

Nufarm is the UK’s leading manufacturer of grassland herbicides, insecticides and growth enhancers. Grassland is a core part of Nufarm’s business and we are proud to have weed control solutions for every grassland situation, including clover swards, reseeds, silage and grazing systems. Our herbicides are manufactured in the UK at our “state of the art” global production plant at Wyke in West Yorkshire and supported by a dedicated grassland technical team. The Nufarm range offers best return on investment to maximise profit from grass.

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Syngenta

Syngenta is one of the world’s leading agriculture companies. We aim to improve the sustainability, quality, and safety of agriculture with world-class science and innovative crop solutions. Our new grassland herbicide gives farmers a simple solution to their weed problems on both new sown leys and permanent pasture, providing peace of mind so you can focus on what you are most passionate about. The safe formulation, with a flexible application window, gives long lasting control against all the key weeds, such as docks, thistles, nettles and ragwort, keeping your animals safe, and contributing to a healthy and productive pasture. We are proud to be partnering with grassland farmers and are committed to accelerating innovation for both our customers and nature.
X: @SyngentaUK
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Volac

Volac International Limited is committed to helping farmers produce consistently better silage as a key part of maximising milk and meat production from homegrown forage. As well as its www.cuttoclamp.com six-step blueprint for better silage-making, the company provides regular, in-season silage-making advice, and conducts pioneering silage research. Silage preserved with its leading Ecosyl additive has been proven to result in improved dairy cow and beef animal performance, and the company markets a range of other additives, utilising the beneficial MTD/1 bacterium used in Ecosyl, for preserving a wide range of other forage crops.

X: @ecosyl @cuttoclamp
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Watson Seeds

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YARA

Yara grows knowledge to responsibly feed the world and protect the planet, to fulfil our vision of a collaborative society, a world without hunger and a planet respected. To meet these commitments, we have taken the lead in developing digital farming tools for precision farming and work closely with partners throughout the whole food value chain to develop more climate-friendly crop nutrition solutions. In addition, we are committed to working towards sustainable mineral fertiliser production. Founded in 1905 to solve the emerging famine in Europe, Yara has a worldwide presence of about 17,000 employees and operations in over 60 countries.

X: @Yara_UK
Find more information about grassland nutrition on the Yara website

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