CONTENTS 3
• APR/MAY 2019
8 WHO IS HECTARE,
SELLMYLIVESTOCK, GRAINDEX,
FARMPAY AND TUDDER?
Hectare’s mission is to make farmers’ lives
easier by reinventing farm trading with its
digital marketplaces.
10 DIVERSIFY WITH A
CAMPING SITE
This article looks at the possibility for
farmers to diversify by setting up a camp
site for the public.
22 MAINTAINING A CLEAN,
PEST-FREE SILO
8
Valuable information about keeping
rodents and other pests out of your silo.
10
28 RICKERBY SHOW’S
COMING OF AGE
Ian Wilkinson headed over to this year’s
Rickerby show, here he gives us a review
of the show now in its 18th year.
44 FIFTH GENERATION OF THE
FRANKLAND FAMILY BENEFIT
FROM MIXED FARMING
22
Farmers Mart headed over to Settle in
North Yorkshire to chat with the Frankland
family and how they manage 900 acres.
48 PRODUCING LIVESTOCK
FROM THE HILLS TO THE
BEST OF THEIR ABILITY
28
44
Chris Berry sat down with Rob & Penny
Paisley at Middleton, near Ilkley to discuss
their principles of producing
livestock off grass-based systems
48
52 HAPPY TIMES AT
SLEDMERE ESTATE
Chris Berry caught up with Sledmore
Estate farm manager James Fenwick to
chat about how the he farms 2.500 acres
of the 9000-acre estate.
70 TIME FOR SOMETHING
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
52
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The Fendt IDEAL is a combine that has been
developed from scratch. We take a closer
look at this new combine from Fendt.
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