Farmer – Shimpling Park Farm The Farm Our crops are all grown for specific markets. We grow organic wheat, barley and beans for British Quality Pigs’s organic herd, which are sold in Waitrose under the Duchy Original brand. Organic oats are produced for White Oats, organic spelt for Sharpham Park and organic quinoa for the …
Farm Manager at Overbury Farms The Farm Overbury Farms is an integrated part of Overbury Enterprises which has been in the same family for over 250 years. It is a mixed farm that produces a range of crops including wheat, barley, oilseed rape (OSR), pease, linseed and soya beans. We also let out certain areas …
When I was at school, the lights kept going out: we were in the middle of the ‘energy crisis’ of the mid-seventies and the country was struggling to function properly with three day weeks and queues at petrol stations and all the rest. Great fun for us kids, you might as well play outside, if …
Wheatsheaf Farming Company (WFC) farms around 700 Hectares of grade 3 land in Hampshire for 3 landowners. 2 of the landowners also own WFC as a method of farming their land more cost effectively. David Miller, their farm manager, describes details of their move from conventional to no-till farming. I have worked in farming full …
Agricology is a community of farmers and researchers sharing knowledge and experience on agroecological farming practices; online and in the field. We are a free service to support all farmers and growers to transition to more resource efficient, resilient and profitable farming systems, regardless of labels. Mark Lea is a farmer profiled on the Agricology …
DAVID WHITE – HAWK MILL FARMS Farming 160ha of combinable crops on light “boys” land over chalk between Cambridge and Newmarket, I’ve just had my third direct drilled harvest. I’m 100% combinable having been a sugar beet grower since the days of hand hoeing as well as offering a drilling and harvesting service with a …
