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Weather to Harvest? That IS The Question

Well, I am a bit late in updating our harvest progress on the blog this year. We started cutting winter barley on the 12th July on some very light, ex sand and gravel land, according to Tim who drives the combine it was the earliest he can remember starting harvest. The yield held up well considering...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Jul 24 2011
Keeping H2O Low with LEAF

Last thursday I had a brilliant day with other members of the Carling Wester Growers Group at a special training day organised by LEAF The training day was to bring to our attention the impact of water on our farms and how much we rely on this precious resource. The aim of the day was to raise awarness...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Jun 27 2011
Our Countryside Comes to Life

Yesterday the Estate held it's bi-annual Countryside Foundation For Education day. It is a great day out for our local schools getting their children out onto a real farm to see exactly what happens. The groups of about 20 children had 8 different 'stands' to look at. The groups rotated...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Jun 17 2011
A-maize-ing

Today, I discovered that I like flying in helicopters over farmland. Sometimes my job’s pretty good.

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Jun 13 2011
A Successful Day, Dispite The Weather

Our first visitor for this years Open Farm Sunday event arrived in the drizzle just before 9am. The tractors were polished, the trailers swept and the fields nicely mown. After a slightly delayed start we headed off to The Overbury Stud where Simon Sweeting gave us a talk about the workings of a stud...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Jun 13 2011
The mega WI

“You youngsters like things big,” the old dear in the back of the taxi said to me yesterday morning, sucking in her cheeks. “We prefer small things – small businesses, small farms. “Whole villages will be ripped up to make way for those giant diary farms, it’s disgusting...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Thu, Jun 9 2011
Getting The Job Wrapped Up

So far this year our silage making has been well timed and the sun and wind has helped dry out the cut grass nicely. For the last two years I have been using a local contractor to come and do the baling and the wrapping. Our old equipment means the whole team has to be turned out in order to get the...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Thu, Jun 9 2011
'Lambing Live' at Overbury

Well here it is, I have finally got round to blogging again after a very very busy few weeks. On Sunday 17th April we had our annual 'Lambing Live' event at Park farm, home to our flock of Mule and Mule x Texel ewes. We were very lucky with the weather with hot sunshine all day for our visitors...

Posted to Farmer Jake's Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Apr 22 2011
Doing porridge for a farm photo

When I was on holiday in Florida a couple of years ago, I managed to convince my friends to pull our hire car over so I could stop off to take some photos of an orange grove. Not being farmer-types, they had a bit of a whinge about the delay. They couldn’t have cared less [...]

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Wed, Mar 9 2011
A possible hairy situation for the NFU

Dear oh dear. I can’t image the NFU team are a bunch of happy bunnies at the moment. Having given DEFRA secretary Caroline Spelman a telling off this week for not taking farming seriously enough, this morning it’s emerged government plans for a badger cull to tackle bovine TB are being delayed. The setback...

Posted to nufsaid (Weblog) by anonymous on Fri, Feb 18 2011

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