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Home Farm: starting our solar journey

We dithered as to whether the wire should be buried beneath the yard or brought around overhead by being attached to the existing outhouses.

VIEWPOINTS 3 December 2025

Home Farm: starting our solar journey

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Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

VIEWPOINTS 26 November 2025

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

VIEWPOINTS 19 November 2025

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

VIEWPOINTS 12 November 2025

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

VIEWPOINTS 5 November 2025

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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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 2025

Home Farm: harvest over, preparations for 2026 begin

Home Farm: harvest over, preparations for 2026 begin

Beans are much more variable than wheat or barley or even oats which is similarly meant to like cool, moist summers but which I have found much more reliable than the beans.

VIEWPOINTS 17 September 2025

Home Farm: tackling the urgent tasks

Home Farm: tackling the urgent tasks

Decisions - we now have to decide on the tillage rotation for next harvest.

VIEWPOINTS 17 September 2025

Home Farm: the best laid plans

Home Farm: the best laid plans

There was no point in causing really expensive damage to the combine so we stopped.

VIEWPOINTS 17 September 2025

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