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This week’s cold weather has unfortunately held up our sugar beet lifting programme. As a result, we have very little stock left on farm, so hopefully the milder conditions next week will allow us to get more up. We’ve started drilling our spring barley and we presently have 25% drilled. Winter filling of our main
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Our winter harvest of sugar beet continues – we’re now approaching 60% lifted. Our yields remain good and over 30% of the contract has been delivered. We continue to load out wheat to Kerry’s at Gainsborough and we are busy emptying our grain stores at Mickleholme Farm for the last time. We have been busy
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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
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We’re now getting towards the end of our forage crop harvest for our crop drier and we are now busy finishing lucerne and timothy pellets. BCC grass will now be cut for the final time and we have also completed irrigating for the year. The grass and lucerne season has been a good one, with
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Our combinable crop harvest was trouble free – and dry – so, a very cheap one! Wheat was excellent after a range of drilling dates on the Heath and this has propped up our heavy land fields, which have seriously underperformed. Light land wheat was 10% above the 5-year average, whilst heavy land was 35%
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Combinable crop harvesting is underway and so far, the weather has been friendly. A lot of our crop has been cut dry and as a result, we are, so far, having a cheap harvest! Spring barley yields on the Heath have been above average and winter wheat has also performed well on the Heath. Crops,
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Our combinable crop harvest is imminent and we’re not sure if we’re confident about yields – let’s hope we’re pleasantly surprised!Grass and Lucerne drying continues and we are now coming out of the ‘rapid growing period’; grass and Lucerne now slow down, with cutting intervals extending, but with an increase in quality for chlorophyll extraction.Irrigation
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The harvest season has started at Blankney with our winter forage, winter barley, and winter rye already complete. Yields are approximately 11% down, a reduction which, considering the season we have had, is understandable. Our vining pea harvest is now ongoing and again, due to the weather, we’re currently seeing mixed results. With the recent
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We’re getting towards the end of the Spring period and we have established over 900 hectares of maize. Crop development, especially with later drilled crops, has been steady but with the recent rainfall, we have sufficient moisture – so we can be a bit more optimistic on yields. For our cereal crops, we could do
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Since our last update, sugar beet drilling has been completed in good time and maize planting has followed – 900 h/a will be established; as of today, we have a day and a half left to complete – a good effort by our drilling team. Crop drying has started but the previous cold weather has
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