Lordington Park Agronomy

13/11/2025

🪱Worms, lovely worms! Nature's soil improvement engineers🪱

02/11/2025

Grand day out with the gang. Birds flew well in the wind.
The ‘gormless one’ aka Django put in a stunning performance. Saw a bird shot 4 guns away, marked it, so I sent him and back in a flash! Certainly runs like he is on wheels, so sent him for another one with the same result 😊
Ritza had some outstanding finds in thick cover, but started to spit her birds at me as impatient to get on. Hence making her concentrate on her skills with the duck.
Sovka on it as always, and impatient to get on!! Can’t think who she takes after 🤔
Bodes well for a fun filled Season.

28/10/2025

Grass for horse hay drilled in early October... later than planned, but into an ideal seedbed with soil at 10.2 °C.

Now emerged, conditions should encourage more growth. Bespoke mixture to match our soil and the horses’ digestion: meadow fescue, sheep’s fescue, timothy, creeping bent and creeping red fescue (to stabilise the sward with stolons and rhizomes), plus cocksfoot for protein and strong copper & zinc uptake.

No artificial Nitrogen, just seaweed extract and zinc to support plant and soil resilience.

21/10/2025

Marvellous results while renovating rugby pitches at Wortley this month: verti-drained aeration, knife aeration and fertilising.

Pitch conditions are holding up despite recent weather - plenty of anecic worm casts, a great sign of soil health.

09/09/2025

Healthy soil = Healthy crop = Healthy profit

Yesterday Jonathan Holmes presented with Phil Wright of Wright Soil Solutions at the Future Biogas Grower Day at Flat Hill Farm, speaking to maize growers on how to build soil resilience and improve farm profitability.

They will be covering the same themes again this Friday 12 September at the next Grower Day near Egmere Energy, alongside field trials and discussions on maize varieties and nitrogen use.

Find out more here 👇🏽

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grower-day-egmere-energy-tickets-1552402911899?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

04/09/2025

Turning wastewater into fertiliser? Researchers in China have developed a solar-powered system that can recover ammonia from wastewater – creating a potential new source of nitrogen fertiliser while also cleaning up run-off.

The process uses a solar still and a special sponge material to convert ammonium in wastewater into usable ammonia, which can then be captured alongside clean water. Early studies suggest the system could pay for itself in just a few years.

Why does this matter?

- Less reliance on expensive fossil-fuel derived fertiliser products

- Cleaner water with a lower potential pollution risk

- A cheaper, ‘greener’ source of crop nutrients for food production

It’s still at the lab stage, but innovations like this point towards a future where farming inputs are recovered, recycled and made more sustainable.

Find out more here and let me know what you think 👇🏽

Technique could provide cheap fertilizer and prevent harmful nutrient runoff

22/08/2025

14/08/2025

Great to be down at Lavant Equestrian again. Superb facility.

Catching up with Mills and Lucy to discuss the next stage of the plan to generate resilient grass grazing for the horses that withstands the vagaries of our UK weathe

25/07/2025

Jonathan provides tips for maintaining good grazing for horses in the latest issue of Your Horse Magazine.

"Maintaining good grazing for a horse always takes more time and money than you think!”

You can buy your copy of the magazine here 👇🏽

https://shop.kelsey.co.uk/single-issue/your-horse-magazine/533