| Grass & Silage
SRUC, Crichton Royal plays host to ScotGrass 2016
The AEA is delighted to announce this year’s ScotGrass
event is returning to Acrehead Farm, at the SRUC Dairy
Research Unit, Crighton Royal Dumfries on Wednesday
18th May.
he event
sponsored by
Volac gives
farmers and
contractors an
opportunity to see
new technology at work and gives
them the platform to think of
different ways of making more
from grass this coming season.
Event organiser Duncan Russell
said, “ScotGrass 2016 is on
course to be even bigger than the
last event and we are delighted to
be making a return to Crichton
Royal and that SRUC and farms
manager Hugh McClymont have
agreed to host the event. They are
reporting good grass growth and
Hugh is confident that with some
dry weather the site will be in
excellent condition with plenty of
grass for the event.”
Alongside the working
demonstrations the Knowledge
Trail will include five stations. The
Conservation station will give
practical help on forage and the
event partner Volac will be on
hand to give advice on the best
T
www.farmingmonthly.co.uk
way of conserve crops. The grass
variety station focus will be to look
at new and improved grass
varieties and how to achieve the
know-how with new grass and
forage varieties to make the most
of growing crops. A Controlled
Traffic Farming stage is about
protecting soil structure for
maximum crop performance. This
station will look at work done on
the farm to manage where
machines go in the field, not just
when conserving forage but
throughout the farming year. A soil
pit station will look at the farms soil
structure and finally, there is a
station dedicated to Cut and Carry,
supported by AHDB Dairy which
will look at ways to get fresh grass
in front of the cows.
“ScotGrass 2016 is ideally
placed for farmers and contractors
from Scotland, England and
Northern Ireland and will give them
the opportunity to see new
technology at work in practical
farm conditions,” added Mr
Russell.
Key Facts
Event Location: Acre Head Farm, Glencaple Road, Dumfries, DG1
4AS, follow the road
signs.
Time: 8am – 4pm for demonstrations (5pm for static exhibitors)
Cost £10 on the gate per car, or £7.50 per car by pre booking on the
website.
For further information and to buy tickets visit www.scotgrass.co.uk
follow
@ScotGrass on Twitter #scotgrass2016 , call 0845 4900 142
April 2016 | Farming Monthly | 27