Farm facts | AWSM FARMS, Hutton Magna, North Yorkshire
AWSM Farms, Hutton Magna, North Yorkshire, farms a total of 1,420ha (3,509 acres) of which 148ha (365 acres) owned by Adam Metcalfe, remainder on six contract agreements and two Farm Business Tenancies on land up to 25 miles away.
Soil type ranges from light sandy loam to heavy clay, up to 600ft above sea level, mainly combinable crops, but including sugar beet, fodder beet, potatoes and 316ha (781 acres) of grass.
All land is in ELS with some going into HLS.
Staff numbers are currently 14 full time, plus up to 12 part-time.
As well as the farming operations, a large contracting business provides all arable and other contract services, specialising in slurry injection, spreading of farm and other wastes, baling and spraying.
Farm runs 1,250 Mule ewes, bought as shearlings.
1,300 pigs reared in straw yards on contract for local pig producer.