Blankney Farm Update – 6 November 2024

Yesterday saw the end of our crop drying season, with a final 70 tonnes of grass being dried as feed stock or for chlorophyll extraction.

British Chlorophyll have been busy recently and are well ahead of their feedstock plan. If this continues, we will be out cutting grass early next spring – lets hope we don’t have the ‘Beast from the East’ as a weather pattern!

Sugar beet harvest is underway, with 15% of the crop lifted; yields are in line with our 5-year average.

Maize harvest is now complete. Another good year for maize, a crop which continues to outperform cereals.

The main drilling period on our cereal crops has now completed. Apart from the early wet start, this autumn has felt a lot more normal.