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12th February 2026
A year ago I was lamenting light yields, late movement and bad weather…nowt changes! Our potato harvest for 2025 wasn’t quite as grim as it was in 2024, but storage is much more of a challenge than 12…
12th December 2025
So where did we finish up with our taty harvest this time? 14 days, 6.5 people, 7435 litres of fuel, 3018t, 67ha lifted and very little road brushing required – it could have been worse, that’s for sure. We’re a few percent short of our contract yields, but it’s fair to say our worst…
21st October 2025
Well, we started this month ahead of usual but things have a habit of upskittling themselves at times, and as things stand we’ve not yet started harvesting potatoes, despite half of them being ready.
26th September 2025
The only thing worse than a poor performing year is one that follows another poor performing year. It’s safe to say arable farming and taty growing isn’t much fun at the moment.
27th August 2025
Taties get a bad press when it comes to soil. If we were to assume nothing had changed since the ‘bed-till to death and blather everything with Temik’ days of the 1990s, perhaps it’d be…
28th July 2025
Is it going to be a back end of sheeting trailers and dragging tow straps around? Who knows? Mother Nature tends to pay her debts at some time or other.
27th June 2025
Contrasting years don’t vary much more than 2024 and 2025. We finished planting this year’s crop more than a month earlier than last year and are currently at a point where all pre emergence herbicides are…
21st May 2025
26th March 2025
It’s funny how a few dry days in winter makes everything look better on farm. As I write, we’ve tray tested our brand-new-second-hand spreader and spun some urea onto backward crops and the strip-tilled wheat…
17th December 2024
17th October 2024
Firstly a few positives – for one, our late-drilled spring cereals were just about worth sowing; not anything like as good as the earlier planted crops, but I didn’t expect they would be. However, the rent…
