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• Harvest Rolls Around Again!

  Yesterday we started combining! It was 9 days later than last year but a much more traditional start date for us on the winter barley. It is usually a toss up between barley or rape but this year the barley gets the nod and gets combined first. We started... Posted Jul 24 2012, 07:06 PM by Farmer Jake Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Malting Barley, John Deere, combine harvester, Syngenta, Molston Coors Growing Group, Bamboo, Cassata [Edit Tags]

• Grain To Glass

  On June 26th 8 intrepid novice cyclists are setting off from the Shobnal Maltings (Burton-upon-Trent) in order to raise money for the Molson Coors Growers Group charity, The Prince's Countryside Fund . Our aim is to raise awareness of the supply chain... Posted May 24 2012, 05:42 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Malting Barley, Molston Coors Growing Group, Charity, Bike Ride, Sponsorship [Edit Tags]

• Molson Coors Growers Group Spring Meeting

  On Tuesday we were excellently hosted for our first Molson Coors Growers Group spring agronomy meeting by Richard Tongue at Priory Farm Hazelton up in the Cotswolds. We met up in the yard and had a brief summary of the evening by James Cox and then it... Posted Apr 27 2012, 09:32 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Malting Barley, Molston Coors Growing Group, Farmers [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]

• Drilling on the Tarmac

  Last week we had a strange request and that was: "could we bring a tractor up to Overbury School as they are doing a farming topic?" We after the rain over the weekend we were unable to go drilling so Gordon took the tractor and the drill (it... Posted Sep 26 2011, 01:15 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Malting Barley, John Deere, Oilseed Rape, Milling wheat, Overbury School, Horsch Drill [Edit Tags]

• A little Help From Big Sista!

  Our run of good weather has finally come to an end and so allows me to tell you a little about some exciting new machinery. We have actually cut something every day since the 20th July which in itself is quite a record for the past few summers. Where... Posted Aug 04 2011, 02:46 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Malting Barley, John Deere, Bredon Hill, combine harvester, Molston Coors Growing Group, S690i [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]

• Beasts in the Barley

  Just for the records I also found a whole lot of ladybirds and larvae in the Coors Malting Spring Barley this afternoon. Even though it was raining the larvae were hard at work searching for their supper. On the menu tonight (I think) were grain aphids... Posted Jul 22 2010, 10:03 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Malting Barley, Coors, ladybirds [Edit Tags]

• Coors 'Best Practice' for storage

  The malting trade is a very difficult business as we are dealing with a living growing seed. The seeds or grains must therefore be kept in perfect conditions to avoid loosing germination or getting pest infestations. Keeping those two key thoughts in... Posted Jun 16 2010, 08:49 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Malting Barley, Coors [Edit Tags]

• Harvest Update

  We've had a fairly good spell of weather for the past 10 days and been able to make good progress, we even managed to harvest some of the spring barley without having dry it. The Solstice wheat is all but in the barn, 14ha's left, at 500ft, that... Posted Aug 20 2009, 09:56 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Malting Barley [Edit Tags]

• Spring Planting Apace

  With the recent dry weather, yes it's been dry for at least 2 weeks, last time that happened was in 2003, or so it seems, the land has been dry enough to travel on. Gordon here > is drilling Tipple Spring Malting Barley on Bredon Hill. This is... Posted Mar 02 2009, 08:33 PM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Carling, Frontier, Malting Barley, Lamb, Coors [Edit Tags]

• Farm Catch up

  After the wet weather of the summer the frosty conditions are what we are all craving, allowing field work to begin in fairly good conditions. Derek has been been ploughing up on the hill in preparation for spring malting barley, grown on contract to... Posted Dec 04 2008, 09:06 AM by Farmer Jake Filed under: Malting Barley, mill mixing [Edit Tags]