DLF SEEDS R&D UK

UK perennial rye grass breeding and forage trials station for DLF Seeds and Science. We also host forage official trials, turf, maize and cover crop trials.

[DLF Seeds UK @DLFSEEDS_UK]

This week's Photo Of The Week is something a little different! 🌻

Wild sunflowers are amazing sources of food for pollinators, attract birds & they add some beauty to your chosen area. Sunflowers also absorb toxic heavy metal contaminants & poisonous chemicals in the soil!

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Join our photo competition & win you/your business £200 worth of wildflowers & a tour of our production facilities (with a lunch)! 🌼🎉

Simply send us your photo either via message/comment or by emailing [email protected]. Don't forget to tell us a bit about your project too!

[DLF SEEDS R&D UK @DLF_Didbrook]

How wet is your summer? #wet #summer #harvest #toad #bufobufo

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This year's wildflower production has started at our @DLF_Didbrook trials site! The team has been hard at work planting plug plants in trays & in the field! 🌿🌸 #DLFSeeds

[DLF SEEDS R&D UK @DLF_Didbrook]

With dark clouds in the distance Jon and Mike are putting some spray marks in our heading date trials to mark each row. The rain held off just long enough for the chemical to do it’s job. #DLF #springjobs #rain #sprayandpray

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A little sunshine between the showers and the poly tunnel comes alive. Here we keep some of our breeding material and grow on our nursery plants #DLF #rain #sunshine #spring #polytunnel

[DLF SEEDS R&D UK @DLF_Didbrook]

One of our practical experiments, this time on our yellow flag iris. Will the yield/management be better when we clean the old growth away or keep it? What do you think and why? Update to follow after this season’s harvest. #wildflower #seed #production

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Our trials technician @Johnmalmond doing a great job rolling the plots. The trials are greening up nicely after a trim and a roll. Soon we will be putting some starter fertiliser on to get things growing in earnest. #keepcalmrollon #DLF

[DLF SEEDS R&D UK @DLF_Didbrook]

Getting ready for some gps guided line spraying after this rain. These spraying lines will mark out the trial plots and trim them all to be the same size. First we have to fix the electrical faults…

[DLF SEEDS R&D UK @DLF_Didbrook]

After 20+ years of service our Haldrup 360 has cut it last blade of grass in the UK. It is now on its way to green(er) pastures in the USA! Good luck to our DLF colleagues across the pond with this old girl. @DLFUSA @DLFSEEDS_UK #teamwork

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Exceptional February weather gets us out in the fields planting some of our small multiplications. Here Charlie is planting some meadow sweet in our test area. #summer or #spring? #DLF #wildflowers

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Beautiful day @DLF_Didbrook. Looking at the #covercrops and #greening part of our #yourcountryside range.

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#DaikonRaddish root pulled from our #trials @DLF_Didbrook earlier today. Sown mid-August 2017. #roots #covercrop https://t.co/aL6N57bRKa

[Thomas Moore @moorethomas8]

31000 plots cut. Nearly cut them all @DLF_Didbrook

[DLF SEEDS R&D UK @DLF_Didbrook]

Joanna’s nursery’s looking excellent on this lovely November day #grassbreeding

[Thomas Moore @moorethomas8]

Last cut of the season for the lates. @DLF_Didbrook

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Good looking 50% Italian and 50% Hybrid ryegrass catch crop mixture! Up to 2 years of intensive cutting with this #CatchCrop #Grass

[Thomas Moore @moorethomas8]

Beautiful day for cutting @DLF_Didbrook

[DLF Seeds IRL @DLF_IRL]

A birds eye view of the DLF Maize trials managed by Jimmy Staples. The video was taken prior to and during harvesting 2017. Call 051 897060

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Some very happy cows grazing on Fodder Beet on a DLF Beet Trial in Co. Waterford. 6 varieties in the trial. Call John Enright 086 8290765