Game, Conservation, Hedging & Wildflowers 2025: Bright Seeds look back on a Year of Growth
As we look back on 2025, it has been another enjoyable and successful year working alongside our customers to deliver exclusive, bespoke seed solutions. With so many farmers committed to Countryside stewardship and SFI schemes, it has been a busy year supplying conservation seed to farms right across the country.
A Dry Summer
The weather certainly kept us on our toes. Exceptionally dry conditions made crop establishment challenging in many areas. Crops drilled early in the spring generally performed well and benefitted from the hot, dry summer, while later-drilled mixtures were slower to get going. Thankfully, strong crop growth during late summer and autumn helped rescue many crops and made a real difference for our customers.
Seed Mixture Reviews
Conservation Seed once again played a big role in our year. Field-scale options proved especially popular, with plenty of interest in mixes such as legume fallow and herbal leys. Herbal leys really stood out, showing impressive drought tolerance throughout the dry summer months. Later-sown options were also widely used, with Utopia and Lightning Mustard continuing to be firm favourites.
Our game cover sector continues to go from strength to strength. Gamekeepers across the UK rely on our maize portfolio year after year, and it is great to see our Flightpath maize now firmly established with customers in Austria and Denmark too.
Demonstration Site: What can you expect to see in 2026
As ever, we have grown all our products on our demonstration site at Bright Seeds HQ, allowing us to see first-hand how each variety performs. Our new mixture, Enhanced Grass Buster, has had a strong debut, and following extensive trials we have fine-tuned our Keepers Relief and Royal Mark 4 mixtures to make them even better.
Native Wildflowers
It has also been an interesting year for wildflowers. The long, dry summer resulted in lower-than-average seed yields, but we were still able to harvest and process good quantities from our donor meadows. Our straight crops at Dean Lane Farm were harvested earlier than ever and produced a solid supply of seed for our conservation mixes.
Native Hedging Plants
Finally, our Native Hedging Plants are available for immediate dispatch throughout the winter months – perfect for anyone planning ahead. Our bundles are compliant to the Countryside Stewardship scheme, BN11 Planting New Hedges.
From all of us at Bright Seeds, we would like to thank you for your continued support and wish you all the very best for 2026.