Scarah Bank Farm
♦ Forage Harvesting ♦ Full / Part Operation
‘Farming today is probably
as hard as it has ever been
although it is not as physically
demanding. You work just as
many hours but the way it is
done means there is not as
much shovelling and your
quality of life is better. I used to
start at 5.30 every morning but
the beauty of having robots is
that things are happening and
you don’t need to be there.
These days I now don’t start
while 6.30 but if I didn’t get up
until 9 o’clock the cows would
still have to be milked.
‘Having robots allows
me to spend more
quality time with
the cows and they
are a lot healthier
through it. Routines
such as bedding
and footbathing are
times when you get
to see the herd and how
happy each cow is.’
Andrew is one of four farming
brothers who were all in
partnership until 10 years ago.
The move coincided with the
passing of their father Geoff.
‘There’s my elder brother
William, then me, Peter and
John. We’re all independent
now and all pursuing farming
our own way for our individual
families in a five mile radius of
each other. Alison and I have
two children – Lucy (12) and
Geoffrey (10).
‘We’re farming across 240
acres and currently have 195
♦ Grass / Wholecrop Direct Cut with
or without Mill / Maize
♦ Maize Drilling with Fertiliser Placement / Disc Drill
♦ Ploughing ♦ Splash Plate, 6m Injector
♦ Grass Re-Seeding Full / Part Operation
♦ Combination Cereal Drilling ♦ Power Harrowing
♦ Umbilical Slurry Spreading
♦ Gritting / Snow Clearance
Proud to be associated with Andrew Walmsley
and family of Scarah Bank Farm
Contact us! Office 01423 781331
Andrew 07974441654 | Sam 07968532079
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mainly Holstein
Friesian cows
of which around
165 are milking at any
one time. Our herd average
is just over 10,000 litres at the
moment and since we’ve put
up the new building we keep
all the milking herd indoors 365
days a year. The move to robots
has lifted our herd average by
around 2000 litres. We rear our
own heifers for replacements
and the heifers and dry cows
go out during summer. The
herd transferred over to robotic
milking quite easily and they
were all used to it within two
weeks. The heifers took to
them like ducks to water as
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Bank Farm, wishing them continued success
Moor Lane, Full Sutton, York, YO41 1HX
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