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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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