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Home Farm: basic message is clear after a dry summer

Over-wilting can clearly cause compaction and fermentation problems.

VIEWPOINTS 4 November 2026

Home Farm: basic message is clear after a dry summer

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Home Farm: a week of paperwork

Home Farm: a week of paperwork

VIEWPOINTS 28 October 2026

Home Farm: conditions spur activity

Home Farm: conditions spur activity

VIEWPOINTS 21 October 2026

Home Farm: mucky paddocks, but progress

Home Farm: mucky paddocks, but progress

Home Farm: mucky paddocks, but progress

VIEWPOINTS 14 October 2026

Home Farm: VAT, tax and bills

Home Farm: VAT, tax and bills

Home Farm: VAT, tax and bills

VIEWPOINTS 7 October 2026

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Home Farm: slurry extension is great until the agitator gives in

Home Farm: slurry extension is great until the agitator gives in

After 10 trouble-free years, the slurry agitator has thrown in the towel at an inconvenient time.

VIEWPOINTS 30 September 2026

Home Farm: 2026 farming year closes

Home Farm: 2026 farming year closes

With all the 2024 cattle gone, we are beginning to house their 2025 colleagues as they reach around 500kg.

VIEWPOINTS 23 September 2026

Home Farm: beans and late silage

Home Farm: beans and late silage

I was pleasantly surprised to end up with a yield of about 2t/ac at around 19% moisture.

VIEWPOINTS 16 September 2026

Home Farm: lush green grass returns

Home Farm: lush green grass returns

We have cut the grass for our second cut of silage, later than it has been for many years because of the hot dry weather.

VIEWPOINTS 9 September 2026

Home Farm: one day too late

Home Farm: one day too late

How long do we wait to sow, and will the soil underneath be dry enough to allow the next option of ploughing and following directly with the one pass?

VIEWPOINTS 2 September 2026

Home Farm: greening up though streams dry

Home Farm: greening up though streams dry

One of the consequences of the exceptionally dry warm summer is that the spring beans, the last crop to be harvested, are shorter and more open than I would like.

VIEWPOINTS 26 August 2026

Home Farm: second-cut silage ambitions

Home Farm: second-cut silage ambitions

We continue to draft the few cattle within six weeks or so of being fit into the houses for a full finishing ration but the numbers are small so far.

VIEWPOINTS 19 August 2026

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