Spring on the farm.
Drilling spring barley, lambing in the barn, and the annual gamble on whether there will be enough rain in April. On Cotswold brash a dry spring is the single biggest threat to the year.
What actually happens.
Drilling spring barley, lambing in the barn, and the annual gamble on whether there will be enough rain in April. On Cotswold brash a dry spring is the single biggest threat to the year.
The site itself changes with the season — the colours you are looking at right now are the spring palette, and they will change again without anybody touching the code.
- Drilling: Spring barley
- In the barn: Lambing
- The risk: A dry April
When
March to May
In the ground
Spring barley
On camera
The field cameras run all year.
In the shop
Whatever this season produced.
The spring 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.
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.
The seasonal state at the top of every page is the short answer, and the farming year is the long one.
First sight of every drop
The things that sell out do it in minutes. This is the only warning anyone gets.
This is an unofficial build. Nothing on it is licensed, endorsed or authorised by anybody it describes.
