The mental weather continues on from the last time I wrote something for this magazine. Stuff looks pretty good. I thought I would do a candid evaluation of how crops are looking to start with. Winter Wheat – pretty good on the whole, difficult drilling conditions and some poor headlands. We drilled a chunk very early. …
Déjà Vu? Another fun drilling season….I am pleased to say we are drilled up bar about 50 hectares on some poorly drained blackgrassy land which was always on the list to do last. This will now be better off as spring barley. Last season was very difficult, we did not get enough drilled and were …
What a season we have had! Its years like this when we can really learn a lot about our farming system and what we are trying to do. So, it went stupidly wet stupidly quickly. We have had some really easy seasons in the past 5 years where we have been able to drill later …
“Driver Farms is a family run 1200ha contract farming business based in Suffolk farming hanslope series clay. They practice a regenerative agriculture system based on zero and min till. All agronomy is carried out in house. They are also five years into running a 12m CTF system’ I have just been to look at a …
