In your field

In your field: Ian Garnett - 'I wonder about the value placed on food and on food security'

Blogs

In your field: Ian Garnett - 'I wonder about the value placed on food and on food security'

clock 29 May 2022 • 2 min read
In your field: Kate Beavan - 'The Royal family has a history in farming and Prince Albert was a keen follower of agricultural science'

Blogs

In your field: Kate Beavan - 'The Royal family has a history in farming and Prince Albert was a keen follower of agricultural science'

Following the swedes and turnips, the original plan was to disc the ground to prepare the seedbed for barley, but it was too hard and we had to plough.

clock 26 May 2022 • 2 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - 'There's more brown hares than I've ever seen before'

Livestock

In your field: Kate Rowell - 'There's more brown hares than I've ever seen before'

Lambing’s almost over (at last) and calving is well through here at Hundleshope.

clock 22 May 2022 • 3 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - 'Does identifying manure by smell class as a career skill?'

Farm Business

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - 'Does identifying manure by smell class as a career skill?'

I, like many, headed down to Birmingham and to LAMMA Show recently.

clock 21 May 2022 • 2 min read
In your field: Mike Harris - 'A caesarean was the only way the calf was going to come out'

Blogs

In your field: Mike Harris - 'A caesarean was the only way the calf was going to come out'

It has been another busy month on-farm. Calving is almost over, barring a couple of stragglers. As is the way with calving or welcoming any new life onto a farm, some things have not quite gone according to plan.

clock 15 May 2022 • 3 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - 'Team work makes the family farming dream work'

Farm Life

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - 'Team work makes the family farming dream work'

Spring on the farm is a crazy balancing act which comes with the territory of being a mixed farm.

clock 15 April 2022 • 2 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - 'Best laid lambing plans are not always successful'

Farm Life

In your field: Kate Rowell - 'Best laid lambing plans are not always successful'

There are many farming ‘anchor points’ throughout the year which provoke memories and underline how yet another year has flown past.

clock 14 April 2022 • 3 min read
In Your Field: James Wright - 'I take my hat off to those on other small tenant farms in the South East as we're finding progressing difficult'

Blogs

In Your Field: James Wright - 'I take my hat off to those on other small tenant farms in the South East as we're finding progressing difficult'

We are after a secure FBT – let us know if you are after tenants.

clock 31 March 2022 • 3 min read
In your field: Thomas Carrick - 'Lambing season is my favourite time of the year'

Farm Life

In your field: Thomas Carrick - 'Lambing season is my favourite time of the year'

February and March are typically my least favourite months of the year, with winter dragging on and any developments in the heavily pregnant ewes generally being one problem or another.

clock 27 March 2022 • 3 min read
In your field: Rachel Coates - 'Farmer Time did not go as planned as my internet connection failed'

Farm Life

In your field: Rachel Coates - 'Farmer Time did not go as planned as my internet connection failed'

It has been one of those fortnights when every job takes far longer than it should do.

clock 24 March 2022 • 3 min read