It’s the middle of March already; this year is flying by. Even though in my last article I complained bitterly about the drought, the rain that fell in the latter half of 2025 brought our annual rainfall to just above the 30-year average, and of course, there has been an abundance of rainfall at the …
We were always told that rainfall was the limiting factor to yield in our part of the world, which is North Lincolnshire. We received 146mm of rain up to week 25 of the year, twothirds of this fell in the first six weeks. The annual average rainfall is 632mm, so we have received less than …
September 2024 Another year has passed and although I am without doubt a bit older, hopefully I am a little wiser from all the errors that I have made. We have tried to devise a rotation based around predominantly first wheats, interrupted with break crops of grass seed (down for two and a half years …
Dec 2023 – As we are all aware, this autumn has been especially wet. Although we are not a big farm and most probably, we have a drill capable of sowing twice our area, I would like to report that the principles of direct drilling and regenerative farming do work. We are all sown up …
April 2023 Edition When Chris asked me to write this article, I gravitated into panic mode because this is a quiet part of the year and I was not sure what to write about, however we seem to have been continuously busy, so I had better fill you in on our out of season activities. …
Many farmers have been surprised at their yields this year, the starting point must have been a kind autumn and winter, but it appears that sunlight in June contributes more to yield than we thought and rainfall to the beginning of harvest (6months), was 207mm, could be of less importance. Like the Monty Python Four …
October 2022 Many farmers have been surprised at their yields this year, the starting point must have been a kind autumn and winter, but it appears that sunlight in June contributes more to yield than we thought and rainfall to the beginning of harvest (6 months), was 207mm, could be of less importance. Like the …
Harvest has come and gone. Yields were good but could have been better had the growing season not been so variable. We had trimmed our Nitrogen rates to 160 Kg/N/Ha for wheat and OSR, but huge swings of yields within the fields told me that the yield had not been altogether determined by the fertiliser …
If you are reading this article, I will assume that you may well be at some point in the journey of Regenerative Agriculture. Although I have always been a passionate farmer, trying to become a regen farmer has enhanced my love of farming at what could be considered the latter part of my farming career. …
Written by Andrew Jackson, Pink Pig Farm, Lincolnshire I am a farmer from North Lincolnshire, amongst other things I have been described as butterfly and an evangelist, the former because I am always looking to land on something new which will improve my life and business, the latter because once I discovered regenerative farming, I …
