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Maize Advice from David Bright01/05/2013
Maize Advice from David Bright
Don't Panic but Preparing a Maize Seed Bed This Spring is a Real Challenge Maize Advice from David Bright To say it has been a difficult time for ground prepa...

Radical Fodder Radish01/03/2013
Radical Fodder Radish
Radical fodder radish, exclusive to Bright Seeds, planted for green manure last autumn. Not only has it given good shoot cover all winter, it has held the soil ...

Rod Crossley Presenting Piadin at the MGA Conferen28/02/2013
Rod Crossley Presenting Piadin at the MGA Conferen
Rod Crossley extolling the virtues of Piadin as a slurry additive which greatly reduces the nitrogen losses from the slurry which has a positive impact on both ...

Snow Falls at the Swallowcliffe Open Day February 06/02/2013
Snow Falls at the Swallowcliffe Open Day February
Over 100 people attended this year's open day at Swallowcliffe, one of the best attended so far. Farmers and Keepers were interested to hear about new crops co...

05/02/2013
Bright Seeds Enters 25th Year Under New Management
Bright Seeds was founded by David Bright and his wife Sue on 1st January 1989.  From small beginnings in their garage, the company grew, becoming nationall...

05/02/2013
Feed The Hungry Gap
Many farmland birds, including yellowhammer, grey partridge, tree sparrow, corn bunting, linnet and skylark, require seed food throughout the year.  Resear...

25/10/2012
Utopia Competition!
Utopia is an outstanding cross between black mustard and a wild Ethiopian kale and has been invaluable this season when many early sown cover crops have struggl...

04/09/2012
Be Patient with the Maize Harvest
It has been a particularly difficult year for maize with relatively low temperatures and heavy rainfall.  However, many early sown crops have recovered wel...

22/06/2012
Watch Out for Pests!
'Watch out for Slugs and Flea Beetle' warns David Bright  Slug Alert The slug population, which has increased by 50% in the recent weeks of this very we...

Growing Forage Maize Crops in a Spring Drought14/12/2011
Growing Forage Maize Crops in a Spring Drought
Extra care needs to be taken this season as many parts of the South of England are in predicted drought conditions after 2 years of below average rainfall. Sow...

Testimonial: MAS 17E The 20 Tonne Maize Crop14/12/2011
Testimonial: MAS 17E The 20 Tonne Maize Crop
Robert Symms of Batsons Farm, Adber, Sherborne knows a thing or two about feeding maize to the family's high yielding 180 dairy cows so growing the right variet...

29/07/2011
Mid Season Growing Notes
Mid Season Growing Notes Sorghum Don't despair, sorghum does nearly all its growing in very late July, early August.  Use Jester to control the majority ...

28/07/2011
Cover Crops
This has been a difficult year for cover crops.  In most parts of the country, the spring drought led to seedbeds almost devoid of moisture, leaving a diff...

FIRST DELIVERY OF 4PLAN GAME FEEDS13/05/2011
FIRST DELIVERY OF 4PLAN GAME FEEDS
Thanks for seeing what we are up to! At the end of April we took in our first delivery of game feed in to Deans store and delivered our first consignment of fe...

15/03/2011
MARCH NEWS - GAMECOVER UPDATE
All the photographs featured below were taken on the 14th March just before being topped off. Pheasant & Finch - A crop of Pheasant & Finch photographe...

SUCCESS FOR BRIGHT SEEDS GAMECOVER OPEN DAY04/02/2011
SUCCESS FOR BRIGHT SEEDS GAMECOVER OPEN DAY
Specialist seed merchant Bright Seeds is celebrating another successful open day, the 9th it has organised over a 5 year period.   The event - which was ...

Another Bright Success!18/11/2010
Another Bright Success!
Liquid Easy Keep has come out top in our independant trials and also Keepers have seen good results from using the easy to use bottle with its spray a...

19/07/2010
General Update
Having had the driest spring since the 1920s it presented a real challenge growing and establishing game cover crops. Maize The early sown crops that were dri...

19/07/2009
Weed free cover without chemicals
Bright Seeds has announced the results of trials it has been conducting on "Energy Mustard". The variety has biofumigation properties plus the ability to suppr...

19/07/2009
Mustard as biofumigation crop for fruit
Bright Seeds is urging fruit growers to take advantage of its biofumigation crop. Energy Mustard is the ideal break crop which has biofumigation properties and...

19/07/2009
Not too late for Sorghum!
Bright Seeds is advising gamekeepers and shoot managers to fill gaps in maize with sorghum. The specialist seed merchant is highlighting the semi-tropical crop ...

French Game Fair 200912/05/2009
French Game Fair 2009
Bright Seeds will be running their regular trip to the French Game Fair in Blois for friends and customers in 2009.  The dates are 19th - 22nd June 2009, a...