Farmer Jake's Blog

January 2011 - Posts

• Stone Wall Regeneration

  One of the really great aspects of our Higher Level Stewardship agreement is the additional help and funding to repair some of our worst stone walls. Many of the walls were erected in the 1920's during the great depression, where labour was cheap... Posted Jan 31 2011, 08:43 AM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: stone walls, higher level stewardship, Bredon Hill, Sundial Barn [Edit Tags]

• Chinese Lantern on the Loose

  Read More... Posted Jan 26 2011, 11:08 AM by Farmer Jake [Edit Tags]

• Seed Selection

  Today Paul Gillet and I went to see some game cover and stewardship seed mixtures sold by David Bright Seeds Paul is the Head Keeper at Overbury and together we wanted to go down and have a look at different mixes of seed after the hard winter weather... Posted Jan 24 2011, 06:27 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: higher level stewardship, skylark, Lapwing, Yellow Hammer, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Partridge, Turtle dove, David Bright Seeds, Tree Sparrow [Edit Tags]

• Farmers Toast Carling Western Growers Group

  Yesterday I travelled up with James Cox , (2010 Malting Barley grower of the Year) to Burton-on-Trent to the annual meeting of the Carling Western Growers Group (CWGG). The group of over 70 farmers supplies about 20,000t of malting barley every year to... Posted Jan 21 2011, 05:49 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Malting Barley, Coors [Edit Tags]

• Green Light for High Level Stewardship

  Some good news to share with you all in the New Year. Our Entry and Higher Level Stewardship application seems to have ticked all of the right boxes and has been given a January 1st 2011 start date. From this moment we are putting the scheme into operation... Posted Jan 20 2011, 05:40 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: LEAF, higher level stewardship, Bredon Hill, FWAG, NFU, Orchards, Countryside Code, CLA [Edit Tags]

• Dusty Boots

  Firstly I would like to wish all followers of Farmer Jake a Happy New Year and may this be an exciting and prosperous one for all sectors of the agricultural community. Last week I had the pleasure of heading down to the wild south west of the USA, near... Posted Jan 17 2011, 12:24 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Phoenix, Arizona, Cowboys [Edit Tags]