Autumn on the farm.
Combining whatever is left, drilling the winter wheat, and the beginning of the long argument with blackgrass. Later drilling is one of the few genuinely effective controls.
What actually happens.
Combining whatever is left, drilling the winter wheat, and the beginning of the long argument with blackgrass. Later drilling is one of the few genuinely effective controls.
The site itself changes with the season — the colours you are looking at right now are the autumn palette, and they will change again without anybody touching the code.
- Drilling: Winter wheat, deliberately late
- The enemy: Blackgrass
- The shop: Busiest season
When
September to November
In the ground
Winter wheat, deliberately late
On camera
The field cameras run all year.
In the shop
Whatever this season produced.
The autumn plate from the estate illustration set. The Field palette follows the real season at OX7.
The other three seasons.
And what each of them does to a thousand acres.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
The farming does not. It made a hundred and forty-four pounds in its first year and has rarely done much better. Everything else on this site exists because of that.
Because the worst ground costs more to crop than it returns, and because hedgerow, scrub and margin do measurable work that a combine never will.
Pestering, at your invitation
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Where a number here is estimated rather than published, the page says so. We would rather be dull than wrong.
