Arable Farmer Focus FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Power lines often lower than they should beMy good friend, Jim Pearce, who supplies us with top hay for our horse liveries, took the view that fertiliser was far too expensive this year and did not apply… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Who will follow Boris Johnson?We seem to have suffered from an overdose of politics in the past 10 years, and it is all kicking off again, with Boris Johnson’s leadership coming to an undignified… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: The wheats are on the turnThe recent rains have been welcomed by our spring crops, which are now midway through grain fill in the spring barley and flowering in the linseed. Both crops have thickened… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Cereals and Groundswell - equally fascinatingLike many I have had the great pleasure of attending the recent Cereals and Groundswell events, there is always something to learn and often it’s just something you bump into… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Rye yields more than expectedThe weather is once again trying its hardest to have an impact on the crops. The spring showed lots of promise, but we have had 50% of our normal rainfall,… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Wary of a painful wheat market correctionWe are well and truly into winter out here, a fair bit of mud underfoot with regular, but not large rain events, heavy frosts in between and snow cover down… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Out and about with a run of farm eventsThe return of farm events this year after a two-year absence has been a welcome chance to catch up with people. June seems to have had plenty of events, with… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Being a Monitor Farm has grown me as a farmerThe past four years have flown, for many reasons, but this month saw me host my final AHDB Monitor Farm meeting. It was a perfect day, weather-wise, and I hope… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Good start with forage rye in the clampsIt’s been a good start to cereal harvest, with forage rye now safely into the clamps before the end of June. Unfortunately, the cold spring and lack of moisture had… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Time to update rules for young tractor driversAs harvest approaches, our attention turns to trailer maintenance, combine servicing, grain store preparation and any necessary training (alongside haymaking, irrigating and spraying). Over the years we have had a… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Celebrating 50 years of pea co-opWe are celebrating the 50th year of our local vining pea co-operative, Scottish Borders Produce, this year. The business has undergone various structural changes over this period and now operates… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: The stakes are high for next growing seasonWe are on the home stretch to harvest, now that the T3 sprays are going on the wheat. All that’s left is to wait and hope it all goes to… More articles
