Oats.
Undemanding, useful in a rotation, and a genuinely good break crop on ground that struggles with blackgrass. Not glamorous and not the subject of any television episode.
- Role
- Break crop
- Helps with
- Blackgrass control
What actually happens with it.
Undemanding, useful in a rotation, and a genuinely good break crop on ground that struggles with blackgrass. Not glamorous and not the subject of any television episode.
A rotation without a decent break crop is a blackgrass problem waiting to happen, and blackgrass costs about £155 a hectare on an infested farm.
- Role: Break crop
- Helps with: Blackgrass control
Drilled
Autumn or spring, depending on the year.
Grown
On Cotswold brash over limestone.
Harvested
Weather permitting, which is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Sold
As something worth more than the raw crop.
The field this comes out of, in the season it looks best. It does not look like this in February.
Watch it grow.
The field cameras run all year, including the eleven months when nothing happens.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
The seasonal state at the top of every page is the short answer, and the farming year is the long one.
Not on foot, most of the year — it is a working farm with machinery in it. The cameras, the virtual walk and the footpaths are the honest alternatives.
The honest version, fortnightly
No campaign calendar, no filler. When there is nothing to say we do not send anything.
