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So October started of where September left off, flat out. Maize was all finished and now attentions turned to the Final Cut of grass. Roughly 200acres done, here on the farm, we cut, Tedder and rake all our own grass, leaving the contractor with foraging, trailers and loading shovel. It was cut number 7 for the year, it’s a multi cut system so cutting happens every 4 weeks, but it still yielded around 4.5 ton/acre. It wasn’t as dry as we’d like but there just wasn’t enough su

It is not often I say what an easy season we have had but this autumn has been text book. After the last few years of bad autumns, lots of people around here (Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire border) were throwing wheat into the ground in September. Our seedbeds certainly would not allow for this being a heavy clay. After an initial cultivation with a Sumo Trio and Simba Cultipress to conserve moisture they were put to bed. Mid September saw another pass of the Cultipress after so

Hello and welcome to my blog about my family farm here in the middle of Cornwall. My name is Irwin and together with my sister, her husband and their two boys we run a 500 cow dairy farm. Farm facts are as follows. As I said we have 500 Holstein with a 305 day milk yield of 12 200 on twice a day milking, 39 litres per day, 4.3 fats, 3.35 proteins. With 4000 litres from forage. September update- The month started wet and rain every day from the 27th of August until the 20th o

With harvest firmly wrapped up with the worst results known on this farm, thoughts turned to cultivations... ‘Should we, or shouldn’t...