Harvest update from Phil Meadley:
We are very dry in East Yorkshire and would really like some rain! All the spring barley is drilled the last field been done by a local contractor with a strip-till drill as we wanted to retain all
I would like to start by wishing everyone a prosperous New Year. We were quite busy up to Christmas: we got a new hedge planted with the help of my son who was on holiday, while my brother was
Just to give an update on the farm: we drilled our last wheat, Dickens, into our worst black-grass field on Wednesday 26 October. This went into a seedbed which was created by the Sumo LDS with
Just a few thoughts on harvest and yields... Spring barley was the stand out crop for us this year. The field that was ploughed and drilled direct with our cultivator drill yielded better than the
We are currently getting the farm ready for our open day,and trying to get around all the fields pulling black-grass and spraying off any big patches with glyphosate. I am looking forward to having
I am sat looking out across our second wheat again this time in rare sunshine, but with more rain in the forecast. We have got all our spring barley drilled, but it is not out yet as soil
I am sat in the house after another wet morning watching the second wheat outside our window slowly growing. It has had two herbicides and one insecticide so far. We have all the T0 fungicides and
As I sit looking out of the window, having eaten my lunch, it is lovely bright sun after a frosty morning. We have taken the hedgecutter off the tractor and put on the fert spreader, as we shall
We have now finished all land work for autumn 2015 – we’ve only got hedge trimming and delivering wheat to keep us busy up to Christmas. We had our first Monitor Farm meeting of the year on 5
