The Farmers Mart Summer 2017 - Issue 51 | Page 71

63236 - TriffittTrailers - 8TH.pdf 1 05/06/2017 15:39:51 Rayslack House C M Y CM MY CY A comprehensive range of trailers manufactured to the highest standards · Builders of quality trailers for over 40 years · · Made to measure to meet your individual requirements · · Full range, flats, low loaders, grain, root crop, silage & bowsers · CMY K Proud to suppliers to Andrew Harrison of Rayslack Farm Please contact us for a brochure and full details on our extensive trailer range Tel: [phone] | E: [email protected] | www.triffitttrailers.co.uk JAMES MORTIMER LTD. “Serving Yorkshire Agriculture Since 1869” with pig and cattle manure. It’s what I’d call grade three running to grade four land in the worse areas that has good, productive soil, provided the season suits it. It’s shallow soil. The topsoil goes from sandy loam to fairly sticky clay loam with an element of flint. If it’s too dry in the spring we suffer. ‘I was around 65/35 towards voting ‘remain’ until somebody in Brussels started playing silly beggars about glyphosate. That tipped me over the edge and I became a ‘leave’ not because I think we shall necessarily be any better outside of the EU, as I don’t know that will be the case and I suspect most of us don’t, but as far as I could see there wasn’t much science behind the reasoning for outlawing its use. Others have put it more eloquently than I but I’ll just say that it’s the sort of nonsense that modern agriculture doesn’t need and flies in the face of everything we’re trying to do.’ Andrew sees the present time as an important period for UK farming to ensure its future and that the NFU is in a pivotal position to bring about right results for British agriculture to move forward. ‘Just at the moment with the potential negotiations for Brexit the NFU is seen by others as the voice of farming, whether those outside of our organisation and within others like it or not that’s the way it is. The government seeks out the NFU to discuss, talk and negotiate. While the NFU still needs to carry on reaching out to those who are not members I really feel that now is the time for everyone in farming to reach out to the NFU, because they won’t have much of a voice on their own. We have an opportunity to galvanise UK farming and achieve a more constructive framework and future if we stand together as one. This is a very unusual period in both politics and world trade. There are many things that need sorting out and my feeling is that we have never had a better chance to get farming’s message across to the authorities in a united manner.’ Crops grown in the ground this year at Rayslack include winter barley and winter oats growing mainly seed grain. Oilseed rape is not in this time. Andrew runs what he describes as roughly a six- course rotation in blocks of Independent Grain, Seed and Fertiliser Merchants New seed processing facility with latest seed cleaning and treatment equipment James Mortimer Ltd. are proud of our long-established trading relationship with The Harrison Family at Rayslack Farm and would like to wish them every success in the future. Unit 13, Pexton Road, Kelleythorpe Industrial Estate Driffield East Yorkshire YO25 9DJ Tel: [phone] www.jamesmortimer.co.uk @j_mortimer_ltd Wilfred Scruton Ltd Providence Foundry, Foxholes, Driffield YO25 3QQ Tel: [phone] Supplier of Valtra tractors to Andrew Harrison of Rayslack Farm Maxwell House, King Rudding Lane, Riccall, York, YO19 6QL Tel: [phone] www.farmers-mart.co.uk Summer 2017 71