Farm facts | OVERBURY FARM, Overbury, Gloucestershire
Stand-alone farming enterprise on Overbury Estate covering 1,560ha (3,854 acres).
Soils range from Cotswold brash (Aberford and Elmton series) on higher ground (up to 1,000ft at Bredon Hill) to Lias clay loams and loose, sandier soils on the edge of the Vale of Evesham.
Cropping includes combinable crops, permanent and temporary grass, game cover and woodland. Milling wheats and malting barleys are grown for specific markets. As part of the rotation, significant areas are let to specialist growers for potato, hand-picked peas and salad onion production.
Farms manager plus three tractor drivers, one mechanic/sprayer operator plus one shepherd/tractor driver.
There are 1,150 Texel-cross Mule ewes and 250 ewe-lambs. Lamb is marketed deadweight and sold through the May Hill lamb group to Sainsbury’s, and to local food outlets and private customers.
Members of Linking Environment and Farming as well as the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group. Audited for the Assured Combinable Crops Scheme, Farm Assured British Beef & Lamb and holders of the LEAF Marque.
A 10-year Higher Level Stewardship agreement began on 1 January 2011.