A visit to this year’s Grassland and Muck event promises to be a unique opportunity for farmers wanting to improve returns from their grassland and muck.
The event, which is being held on 21 and 22 May 2008 at Stoneleigh Park, is sponsored by Yara UK Ltd and will challenge producers to plan grass and muck as essential assets for profitable meat and milk production. It will also focus on the practicalities of managing and handling slurry and FYM in the light of the revamped NVZ rulings currently going through consultation.
“Any forage-based system is very dependent on getting the detail and the science right,” says Alice Bell, the RASE’ Technical Events Manager. “Simple changes like reducing reseeding intervals, nutrient testing of slurry and ensuring the optimal timing of FYM application can make a real difference to an enterprise’ bottom-line by simply making better use of the muck and grass on the farm.”
“We will use the Grassland & Muck Event to bring alive the science, legislative requirements and physical handling of these increasingly important assets,” she points out.
The rapid rise in feed and fertiliser prices makes the tri-annual Grassland & Muck Event well timed. The event will focus on re-evaluating the value of muck and grass to improve enterprise profitability within an increasingly stringent legislative environment.
The 77ha (190 acre) site at Stoneleigh Park will be home to over 40 manufacturers demonstrating muck and grassland machinery on 65ha (160 acres) of standing grass and with 650 tonnes of muck. Demonstrating machines include grass mowers and conditioners, forage-harvesters, balers, wrappers, mixer wagons, clamp filling equipment and slurry injection systems.
New for the event in 2008 will be an increased focus on muck, slurry and the revamped NVZ rulings in the Manure and Nutrient Management Centre which will be adjacent to the practical muck handling demos.
There will also be free Forums running on both days of the event which, combined with practical demonstrations, will tackle feeding the dry beef and dairy cow at grass, the new NVZ rulings, accurately assessing grass dry matter in-field and ensuring sustained grass quality through effective management.
There will also be a dedicated area of the site drilled with grass plots demonstrating the latest herbage varieties, the effects of different nutrient regimes and the benefits of herbicides.
For more information go to www.grasslandevent.co.uk Tickets are priced at £12 for adult tickets booked before 15th May and £15 on the gate. Student tickets are priced at £10 but only available in advance and RASE member tickets are £8 in advance and £10 on the gate. Visitors can earn up to 3 BASIS points by attending different areas of the event and pig producers attending the Manure and Nutrient Management Centre can earn 1 PIPR points. A breakdown on how to collect points is outlined below.
| BASIS points | BASIS registered visitors are reminded to
make sure they bring their BASIS card with them on the day.
To collect points simply visit the specified area of the event below and present BASIS card to have the bar code scanned. The breakdown of points and the collection locations are:
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| PIPR points | Registered PIPR members can collect one point by visiting the BPRX stand (stand no 914) in the Muck area. |
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Notes for Editors
Grassland & Muck 2008
Grassland and Muck 2008 is the triennial event for the industry. Partnered by Yara UK Limited and proudly presented by the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
Forums sponsored by Keenan. Manure and Nutrient Management Centre sponsored by England Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative. Agrochemical supplier Agrovista.
Yara UK Limited
- Yara UK Limited is the UK business unit of Yara International ASA, with our head office at Immingham in NE Lincolnshire.
- Yara UK Limited is the leading supplier of agricultural fertilizer-both in solid and liquid form- and horticultural and amenity fertilizer, to the UK market.
- Yara International ASA, the parent company of Yara UK, is a leading chemical company that converts energy and nitrogen from the air into essential products for farmers and industrial customers. As the number one global supplier and developer of mineral fertilizers and agronomic solutions, we help provide food for a growing population.
- Yara International ASA has 6,800 employees, operating in 120 countries and with a turnover in excess of £3.5billion. The head office of Yara International is in Oslo, Norway.
- The Business model for Yara comprises three business
segments:
- Upstream- global production plants
- Downstream- the global sales and marketing of fertilizers and plant nutrition products, divided in to nine business units of which the UK & Ireland is one unit.
- Industrial- the sales and marketing of products for industrial applications
- The name “Yara” is taken from a Nordic word meaning ‘good harvest’.
- For further information on Yara UK Ltd, please see www.yara.co.uk
- For further information on Yara International ASA, please see www.yara.com
Contacts for further information:
Alice
Bell, RASE
Tel: 02476 858 276
Email:
aliceb@rase.org.uk
Jane Craigie, Event PR
Tel: 01466 780078
Email:
jane@janecraigie.com
