02 Welcome YOUR COUNTRYSIDE 2024 A warm welcome to all who regularly receive our brochure and to those who are reading it for the first time, we hope you find it informative. UK Agriculture plays a vital role in providing our sustenance and preserving our biodiversity, maintaining healthy soils, and ensuring water quality. This is achieved by implementing innovative practices such as cover crops, wild bird seed mixtures, diverse forage leys, and nectar-providing crops. These initiatives, supported by agri-environment schemes, aim to create a harmonious and thriving countryside. Our goal is to make 'Your Countryside' a valuable guide that facilitates the successful implementation of these practices, contributing to the overall well- being of our environment. Whatever your requirement for Stewardship, Cover Crops, Game Cover or Forage, we trust that ‘Your Countryside 2024’ will guide you to easy solutions to your cropping needs. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT We aim to deliver top-quality seed products for successful outcomes in game cover, environmental stewardship mixtures, root crops or cover crops. All our products at DLF Seeds Ltd undergo thorough testing in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire to ensure they perform well in UK conditions. We are a forward-thinking company, heavily investing in research and development, specialising in forage crops and other species. Our Product, Species, and Mixture of the Year are carefully chosen based on customer feedback. Our main goal is to ensure that our customers receive the best possible product portfolio we can supply for the stewardship schemes and the Your Countryside catalogue continues to offer valuable technical information and advice on a diverse range of game cover, environmental stewardship mixtures, root crops and cover crops products. Please contact your local technical expert for personalised assistance if you can't find what you need in this catalogue. They are ready to help you find the best solution for your requirements. We gratefully acknowledge all photographic contributions. Supporting farmers to help their local wildlife Farm Wildlife provides farmers and advisers with best practice guidance on helping wildlife on their farms and inspiring them to take action. Farm Wildlife guidance has been produced by a partnership of some of the UK’s leading conservation organisations and the farmers they work with. The 6 point plan to manage arable farms for wildlife provides advice on how to enhance: 1. Existing habitats 2. Field boundaries 3. Flower-rich habitats 4. Wet features 5. Seed-rich habitats 6. Farmed areas WE WORK CLOSELY WITH: Natural England, Campaign for the Farmed Environment, Bumblebee Conservation Trust, RSPB and Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. For more information go to www.farmwildlife.info
Contents 03 NG ★ NG ★ ENVIRONMENTAL GAME COVER CROPS FORAGE CROPS Stewardship Selector 04 Establishing Game Cover Crops 21 Forage Crop Selector 37 Nectar Rich Mixtures 05 Game Cover Selector 22 Turnips 38 Flower Rich Margins 06 Pests & Diseases in Brassicas and Maize 23 Forage Rape 39 Fodder Beet 40 Buffer Strip Mixtures 07 Game Cover Chemicals 24 Swedes 41 Legume Fallow Mixtures 07 Maize Herbicides 25 Kale 42 Legume & Herb Rich Mixtures 08 Forage Maize 26 Root Mixtures & Arable Silage 43 Herbs & Legumes 09 Wild Bird Seed Mixtures 10 Scottish Rural Development Programme 12 Basic Payment Scheme - Scotland 13 Glastir Welsh Environmental Scheme 14 COVER CROPS Cover Crops and Soil Health 15 Game Maize Kale Brassicas Sorghums Millets Game Cover Crops Game Cover Mixtures 27 28 ORGANIC SEEDS 29 Nectar Rich Mixtures 05 30 Wild Bird Seed Mixtures 10 Green Manuring Crops 17 31 Game Cover Selector 22 32 Game Cover Crops 33 35 Arable Silage 43 Cover Crop Selector Cover Crop Species 16 ICON GUIDE 17 Cover Crop Mixtures 19 COVER FEED NECTAR LIFTING CATTLE GRAZING SHEEP GRAZING COVER CROP CULINARY USE DISCLAIMER Any information provided in this catalogue is given in good faith and to the best of our existing knowledge. Any advice should therefore be taken as a general guide only and not relied upon for all conditions and circumstances. We cannot accept any legal liability for information given in this guide. In any instance where there are shortages of specified species we reserve the right to substitute equivalent species. TSTANDI 2023 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR LEGUME & HERB RICH MIXTURE (GS4, SAM3) SEE PAGE 08 TSTANDI 2023 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR WBS 2 (AB9, AHL2) SEE PAGE 10 TSTANDI 2023 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR SPITFIRE FORAGE BRASSICA SEE PAGES 29 & 39 ★ OU ★ OU ★ OU NG ★