Farming has been back on at Meads farm this month. Fertiliser has been going on and crops have been growing. Despite all the weather, the crops planted in autumn on the farm look great (at the moment), and bar a few wet/flooded spots, have done well. Phew. The soil even dried up enough to plant the spring crops. The [...]
Still wet. Still muddy. Still grumpy farmers. This is not just a Cambridgeshire problem, for anyone travelling around the country, no doubt you will have seen quite a lot of wet, soggy fields with not a lot of crops in them…..and everyone is getting a bit scratchy - if you see a farmer around, buy them a pint. The [...]
Still quite a quiet time on the farm in February, especially such a wet February! Not a lot of farming to be done when it is so wet and still cold. Tom has been doing some fertilising in the drier periods, so the crops have food to grow. Peter has also been doing some ploughing of land ready for [...]
Happy New Year, everyone! And hasn’t it been a wet and cold one so far! Not a lot of farmin’ happening over the last few weeks, quite a lot of lookin’ and sucking teeth about how wet it is. Rest assured, if you thought it was wet, farmers across the land have “never seen it so wet”, “never seen [...]
Hedges Hedges HEDGES! Sorry if I sound overexcited, it's because I am. We have had 900m of new hedges planted on the farm this month! If you are walking from Foxton to Fowlmere, hopefully you will see it along two sides of a field. Hedges provide valuable habitat on the farm for birds, pollinators, insects and mammals and also [...]
November brings the beginning of the slightly quieter period on the farm. All the crops are planted and we are waiting for them to get established and grow a little before the harsher winter months. But what rain we have had since they were planted! Having rushed to get all drilled up before it got too wet to travel [...]
Here marks the beginning of the farming year at Meads Farm as we start planting the crops. So with the start of the year, comes the first (of many) farming gambles… ahem sorry…. decisions: when to drill (plant) the crops. This might seem like a straightforward one, just get on with it….but it is not. Blackgrass is a very [...]