The Farmers Mart Dec/Jan 2016 - Issue 43 | Page 24
Great Newsome Farm
NORTHFIELD
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Halsham, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU12 0BT
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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