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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…
17th September 2024
Before I get my crystal ball out, I think we should consider the past – 25 years ago feels like it should be 1985, but it’s actually 1999 – scary!
16th August 2024
Somewhat predictably, given the rain, it’s a light land year. Our winter barley is all cut and varied in yield from not quite 6t/ha to a reasonable 7.9t/ha, with the average tantalisingly close to 7t/ha.…
18th June 2024
As seasons go, spring 2024 must be one of the most frustrating that I’ve experienced in 30 years of farming. It’s tested everything – from kit to people to resolve, and everything in between. But…
14th May 2024
So how’s it going? We’re about a month behind instead of what was three, so progress has been made.
12th April 2024
Last month I said it would dry up soon…well it hasn’t! I can cope with a wet winter – in this part of the world we get an average of 760mm of rain per annum,…
10th March 2024
Unsurprisingly, I have no field work activities to report this month – the nearest we’ve been is making a muck heap in one of our driest undrained fields three times bigger than is required for…
