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Home Farm: beef market surprises

The recent strong winds knocked a few trees, which we will cut up for logs.

VIEWPOINTS 24 December 2025

Home Farm: beef market surprises

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Home Farm: sophisticated solar

Home Farm: sophisticated solar

VIEWPOINTS 17 December 2025

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

Home Farm: starting our solar journey

Home Farm: starting our solar journey

Home Farm: starting our solar journey

VIEWPOINTS 3 December 2025

Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

VIEWPOINTS 26 November 2025

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Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

The key I am convinced, apart from draining obvious wet areas, is to avoid compaction during the sowing season.

VIEWPOINTS 8 October 2025

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

If the rain continues we will have to consider housing everything, though that would eat into our silage supplies and affect our store buying programme in the spring

VIEWPOINTS 8 October 2025

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

All the wheat is now above ground with the tramlines becoming more visible by the day.

VIEWPOINTS 8 October 2025

Home Farm: picture perfect winter barley

Home Farm: picture perfect winter barley

At this stage I am not sure whether we will apply an aphicide to the more barley yellow dwarf virus vulnerable variety.

VIEWPOINTS 8 October 2025

Home Farm: winter preparation continues

Home Farm: winter preparation continues

We seem to have been spared the intense downpours of the south and we have an abundance of aftergrass which we will graze paddock by paddock, moving the fence daily to avoid too much damage.

VIEWPOINTS 8 October 2025

Home Farm: cattle back out by day

Home Farm: cattle back out by day

We are not quite finished all the sowing but with the forecast so good, we are expecting to get it finished and rolled within the next day or so.

VIEWPOINTS 8 October 2025

Home Farm: mucky paddocks and heavy cattle back in

Home Farm: mucky paddocks and heavy cattle back in

With no oats this year, we will have a more compressed sowing season which will add to the pressure but we can only take it as it comes.

VIEWPOINTS 8 October 2025

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