Farmer Jake's Blog

March 2012 - Posts

• Rothamsted Research Facility

  Yesterday I attended a fantastic site in Hertfordshire with our regional (West Midlands) Combinable Crops Board for the National Farmers Union (NFU) The site is all over the newspapers at the moment due to the GM wheat trials that are being run there... Posted Mar 30 2012, 06:26 PM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: NFU, Rothamsted, GMO's, GM [Edit Tags]

• Dear Oh Deer

  On these warm spring days it is great to spend a bit of time trying to find a little more of our wildlife that we have on the farm. I managed to take this picture up on the hill of three fallow deer, sunning themselves and having a quick breakfast . Read... Posted Mar 23 2012, 06:05 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Fallow Deer, Muntjac, Roe [Edit Tags]

• Hartpury Day Trippers

  On Tuesday this week we entertained a group of final year students from Hartpury College . It was a double act between Alex Milne, the Overbury Estate Manager and me. The group consisted of Equine, Countryside Manager and Agrics, so a great mix of different... Posted Mar 22 2012, 08:51 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: higher level stewardship, Overbury Grasshoppers, Hartpury College, Overbury Stallions, Overbury Estate [Edit Tags]

• Cracking Coverage

  We should finish planting the spring barley today after a prolonged drilling period with the foggy weather. The fog has really stopped the ground drying out and meant that we have had to stay off the fields until they are dry enough to travel on with... Posted Mar 15 2012, 04:44 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Malting Barley, Molston Coors Growing Group, direct drilling, Defy Nozzels [Edit Tags]

• Spring Barley Being Planted

  We've started drilling our spring barley crop this year about a week earlier than last year up on the top of Bredon Hill. The weather has been a bit frustrating with the hill covered in cloud for a couple of mornings stopping the fields drying and... Posted Mar 04 2012, 12:02 PM by Farmer Jake [Edit Tags]

• Lambing Update

  The first group of ewes are now over halfway through their lambing with only about 60 to go. Things have been going really well and the weather is almost perfect for putting young lambs and ewes out into the fields. Fortunately we have avoided the Schmallenberg... Posted Mar 03 2012, 08:54 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Lambing Day, Lambing, Schmallenberg Disease. [Edit Tags]