Resources

If your supply of forage and/or bedding has been impacted by an extreme weather event, Forage Aid can assist you. The charity source forage and bedding from donations and pledges from within the farming community, then distribute it to those whose own supply of feed has been destroyed or made inaccessible due to the weather.

The Recommended Grass and Clover Lists for England and Wales are drawn up after rigorous testing for attributes such as yield, persistency, quality and disease resistance. The data come from trials carried out by the NIAB-TAG, Barenbrug, IBERS, DLF Seeds, DSV, AFBI and SRUC, and are evaluated by a panel of experts.

This page brings you the latest research and advice on grass, forage and soil management to help improve grassland productivity on livestock farms.

Farm manager and Nuffield scholar Rob Richmond has been growing herbal leys and has established rotational grazing practices at Manor Farm for the past decade. He explains the benefits of herbal lays on on stocking rates and soil.

AHDB supported a panel discussion with the British Grassland Society, on practical advice for establishing herbal leys in 2021 and beyond.

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The Soil Association work with farmers, businesses and community initiatives to put these ambitions of organic standards into practice. There is training, technical guidance and knowledge sharing events on offer to help all farmers, organic or otherwise, to share and develop practices that are better for the environment and their businesses. The Association also influence policy, grounding campaigns in practical experience.

The SWARM Knowledge Hub is a resource management web information service dedicated to farmers and growers in south west England. By providing knowledge on best practice approaches and new innovations, the site will help to show that sustainable agriculture means more profit for the farming community

A one stop shop for information and resources to help you prevent a TB breakdown and guidance for dealing with TB on farm. There is also a useful tool mapping bovine TB breakdowns in the UK

Tools, calculators and estimators combined with support and advice to help you to manage your soils nutrient status in a cost effective way.

A downloadable calculator enabling dairy farmers to enter their own performance and financial figures to see how they benchmark with others.

A downloadable Key Performance Indicator (KPI) calculator to help producers collect key measurements and identify strengths and weaknesses in their beef herd performance.

These can be used to compare performance with previous years and with similar production systems, using Stocktake figures. They can also be used as part of a herd health plan.

A downloadable Key Performance Indicator (KPI) calculator to help producers collect key measurements and identify strengths and weaknesses in their flocks performance.

These can be used to compare performance with previous years and with similar production systems, using Stocktake figures. They can also be used as part of a flock health plan.

Farmbench is an easy to use online benchmarking tool from AHDB that helps to identify where strengths and weaknesses lie within a farm business by comparing your data anonymously with that of similar businesses.

The Farm Business Survey (FBS) provides information on the financial, physical and environmental performance of farm businesses in England to inform and evaluate policy decisions. The FBS is intended to serve the needs of farmers, farming and land management interest groups, government, government partners, and researchers. Survey results typically give comparisons between groups of businesses, for example between regions or between types of farm. The results attracting most attention are on farm incomes and productivity.

Professional Crap App Calculator for farmers, as recommended by the UK Government Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), the Farm Crap App embeds the Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) data in your mobile device and provides a simple interface to record farm data and make decisions on natural manure for sustainable farming use.

The Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) helps you make the most of organic materials and balance the benefits of fertiliser use against the costs – both economic and environmental. The guide explains the value of nutrients, soil and why good nutrient management is about more than just the fertilisers you buy; it can save you money as well as help protect the environment. The Nutrient Management Guide is published as seven sections.

PLANET (Planning Land Applications of Nutrients for Efficiency and the environment) is a nutrient management decision support tool for use by farmers and advisers in England/Wales and Scotland for field level nutrient planning and for assessing and demonstrating compliance with the Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) rules.

ENCASH is a CD-based software tool that allows farmers and advisors to calculate the nitrogen (N) production in manure produced by different types of permanently housed pigs and poultry based on their specific dietary input, and covering a range of production and manure management systems.

MANNER-NPK is a practical software tool that provides farmers and advisers with a quick estimate of crop available nitrogen, phosphate and potash supply from applications of organic manure.

The AHDB slurry wizard helps you calculate slurry storage requirements, explore options and comply with regulations