Amy joined Wynnstay in March 2021 having previously been Technical and Sales Support at DLF for two and a half years, advising on a range of game cover, stewardship, root, and cover crop mixtures.
Amy is responsible for the environmental, conservation and game seed portfolio within the business, ensuring we can offer a comprehensive product range, supported by expert advice, for the changing needs of our customers.
Reflecting on the challenges the industry faces, whilst the changing agricultural landscape continues to evolve, UK agriculture remains at the forefront of ensuring self-sufficiency alongside contributing to environmental goals. As a result, attention focuses on environmental stewardship, enhancing soil health and water quality, cover crops, regenerative agriculture principles and increasing biodiversity across the farmed landscape.
Within our environmental seeds portfolio, we offer a range of mixtures for environmental stewardship schemes, cover crops, game cover and wildflower mixtures. We understand that farm-specific advice is essential, as no one enterprise is the same. Our specialists can offer up-to-date advice and help you make informed decisions on the best mixture options to suit your needs.
The importance of upholding soil health and sustaining its productivity for the future is essential. No matter what the enterprise, we are reliant on soil for all production, either to produce our crops or forage to feed livestock. Therefore, measures must be taken to conserve soil, which is more vulnerable to erosion and the leaching of essential nutrients over the winter months, especially after the harvest of maize crops.
The problems with weed control in-gamecover crops usually arise because the combination of several different crop species in the mixture, it can make it difficult to find herbicides that are safe to all the components. Weed pressure is also increased when cover crops are sown on the same piece of land for a number of years.
Follow our wildflower growing guide to help create a bee and wildlife haven. Wildflowers have proven to benefit farmland such as improving the wildlife on your farm by improving habitats for pollinators, farmland birds and other wildlife.
The UK Government will continue to offer Countryside Stewardship agreements in2022 and 2023.
Countryside Stewardship will eventually be replaced with the new Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme. This will follow trialling and testing and a national pilot involving farmers and land managers during the next few years.
The importance of upholding soil health and sustaining its productivity for the future is essential. No matter what the enterprise, we are reliant on soil for all production, either to produce our crops or forage to feed livestock. Rising input costs have led to a greater emphasis being placed on the importance of fertile soils with good structure. A single crop can deplete soils of up to 5% of soil organic matter each year which can have a detrimental effect on soil health in the long term if organic matter is not replenished. Therefore, it is vital that measures are taken to conserve soil, which some may say is our most valuable resource. There are numerous ways
