The Farmers Mart Dec/Jan 2016 - Issue 43 | Page 24

Great Newsome Farm NORTHFIELD AGRICULTURAL SERVICES LTD Halsham, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU12 0BT Tel [phone] - Fax [phone] www.northfieldagric.co.uk Richard Cross 07860 429947 | George Cross 07860 429934 Rob Law 07740 781688 Email [email protected] Email [email protected] For All your Farm Machinery Sales, Parts & Service Requirements in East Yorkshire PLEASED TO SUPPLY & SUPPORT MATTHEW HODGSON AND THE TEAM AT GREAT NEWSOME FARM 24 Dec/Jan 2016 www.farmers-mart.co.uk family and is run as a limited company with the directors being Laurence, his wife Doreen, their sons, Matthew and Jonathan. They grow wheat, oilseed rape, vining peas for Bird’s Eye and both spring and winter barley with a small acreage rented out for potatoes. “This is heavy clay Grade 2 land and we’re used to producing barn filling wheats,” Matthew said. “Our crop last summer came in between 4.5 to 5 tonnes per acre and was a bit better quality than the previous two years. Our poorer quality wheat would normally go for feed but we have been sending it to the Vivergo plant at Saltend recently; but around 70 per cent of our crop goes into the soft biscuit market. “We used to grow spring barley if a wheat crop failed. We did that one year a few years ago and found that the quality was malting standard after having always struggled with it in the past.” Local maltsters, Muntons in Flamborough now take their spring malting barley by the lorry load, via Frontier, and the Hodgsons will be growing 45-50 acres of Propino malting