13 November 2015 Here we are, already in the middle of November experiencing our first winter storm. The weather up to now this autumn has been wonderful although harvest was one of the latest I
Greetings from Big Sky Country! It’s very hot here, with temps yesterday at 89⁰F – everyone here thinks that’s a pleasant heat! Montana is very dry so the heat is more bearable than further south. I’m
18 March 2015, Brian Matheson It seems to have been a very long, wet and stormy winter. Now in Mid- March we have just started ploughing again, although ground conditions are very poor. If the
16 March 2015, Rachel Matheson The Black Isle Monitor farm has so far provided a variety of different learning opportunities for young people interested in agriculture. The Black Isle Monitor Farm
Harvest now seems a distant memory! After bemoaning the broken weather of August, we were blessed by a glorious September which allowed both combining and baling to progress without interruptions.
I’m sitting down to write this blog on the last day of August. There’s plenty of harvest work to do but we’re rained off again. We are enduring the third difficult harvest in four years, with 120
Monitor Farmer Brian Matheson speaks to AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds Scotland Manager Gavin Dick at the Monitor Farm meeting on 24 July 2014, about what Brian has learned so far and options for a grain
It’s been a great spring up here in the north of Scotland! As usual the past few weeks have been chaotic and like most farmers' wives I’ve had to juggle cooking, paperwork and housework as well as
I’m up to my eyes in dressing seed barley at the moment, and just taking a quick break to update you on the latest goings-on here at Ballicherry… It was wet, again, for our AHDB Cereals &
Having endured near hurricane force winds, fallen trees, power cuts and blizzards, our opening Monitor Farm meeting still managed to attract over 60 people. These hardy folk must be thanked and
