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land around the farm that vary from 60-77 acres utilising a break crop, oat crop, often two crops of winter barley and two other crops that can be either spring barley or wheat. He’ s using more spring barley this year.
‘ We sowed 140 acres of winter barley variety KWS Orwell for Woodheads at Selby with nine acres down to feed barley; and 60 acres of winter oats for seed using the variety RAGT Lineout plus spring oats for the first time, again going to Woodheads. We’ ve 50 acres of seed wheat variety JB Diego and 34 acres of seed spring barley that are going to Mortimer’ s in Driffield.
‘ Growing nearly everything for seed is something we’ ve done before but we don’ t always go that way. Last year we had 115 acres of winter wheat with none of it for seed. It means you have to
have everything cleaner, field hygiene is a high priority. The only machines that go on our land from away from the farm are a baler and a muck spreader. Every other job is done by us.’
Andrew is catch cropping to fulfil the‘ greening’ requirements of the Farm Payment Scheme. He grows mustard and oats.
‘ It works out that we need to have around 67 acres for‘ greening’ measures. Our first year the largest of the individual blocks( 77 acres) was given over to catch crops and they worked well.’
Andrew is still a firm believer in the plough’ s role in farming, especially at Rayslack, while also committed to one-pass and yield mapping.
‘ We plough and then use a one-pass Amazone combination drill. I also have a minimal tillage cultivator which
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