The Farmers Mart Apr/May 2016 - Issue 45 | Page 50

Benningholme Grange Farm Are delighted to be suppliers to Guy Shelby of Benningholme Grange Farm Aerodrome Works, Lissett, Driffield, East Yorkshire, YO25 8PY Tel: [phone] • Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected] • Website: www.amwarkup.co.uk to get the nutrition right. I’m currently expanding our rotation to two wheats, barley, rape, two wheats and then into a legume. It’s quite a big rotation but I feel it is important. “The barley allows an early entry into rape and also provides straw, which is better for pig bedding. We also grow a bit of spring barley. We’re currently growing Glacier winter barley and will be planting Planet spring barley. Our barley acreage is 120 with the same for rape and 100 acres of legumes. We were growing 100 acres of vining peas but we’ve reduced our risk after having a poor 2014 and have taken them down to 60 acres and brought 40 acres of spring beans in. Typically, the vining peas went really well last year, and the spring beans got away for human consumption.” Oilseed rape is all down to one variety and this year it is DK Exalt. Guy is also trying 25 acres of forage crops, which is partly down to a blackgrass problem, and he’s putting in Italian ryegrass, forage rape and stubble turnips in May. “Dad passed on his advice about trading wheat this way. Put a third into a pool, sell a third forward and the final third try not to cock it up! We had decent yields on wheat last year it’s just a shame about the price. The 2015 yiel