Farmer Jake's Blog

July 2009 - Posts

• Coors Barley Harvest

  On Tuesday 28th July we started harvesting our winter barley crop, destined for the malt houses in Burton on Trent, grown under contract to Coors, which should end up being turned into Carling http://www.carling.com . The harvest was the first harvest... Posted Jul 30 2009, 09:43 AM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Carling, Frontier, Coors, Winter Barley [Edit Tags]

• Soil Management Plan

  Having reviewed our Soil Management Plan, which we undertook as part of our Entry Level Stewardship Scheme Agreement, we have needed to change a gateway to reduce the identified risk of soil erosion and run off. the field is of light soil (Cotswold Brash... Posted Jul 24 2009, 03:49 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Soil Management Plan, entry level stewardship, gateway [Edit Tags]

• Never Rains - It Pours

  Have we been here before? This wet spell of weather stink's profoundly of harvest 2008, which was the wettest ever on record. Damp dewy mornings are superseeded with gushing downpours, wetting crops, livestock and wild birds to their shivering bones... Posted Jul 24 2009, 03:04 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Wet Summer Weather [Edit Tags]

• Tillage Event

  On Thursday the 9 th July the Gloucestershire Root Fruit and Grain Society http://www.grfgs.com/ held a cultivation event just down the road from us at Middle Farm Oxenton . We were treated to over 100 acres of working machinery demonstrations . There... Posted Jul 11 2009, 07:35 PM by Farmer Jake [Edit Tags]