Category: Agriculture

The home of all things Agriculture, including updates from the farm.

Cull Cows

.Reading time 10 minutes.
A black cow standing with her mouth half open in a grass field that's a bit muddy

Culling breeding livestock seems like a bit of a taboo subject to talk about, so of course, I’m diving straight in…

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2020 On The Farm

.Reading time 24 minutes.

I’ve been part way through this post for a few weeks now, trying to work out how to wave goodbye to another year on the farm when that year was 2020…

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All Things Cattle Breeding

.Reading time 11 minutes.

Ask 10 different farmers which is the best breed of cattle, or any other livestock, to keep, and you’ll get 10 different answers. But why are there so many breeds, and how do people decide which to keep?

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Food Stories- An Interview With My Father

.Reading time 13 minutes.
A red Massey Ferguson tractor driving across a field, with a set of discs on the front and a powerharrow and drill behind, drilling a crop.

Welcome to the Food Stories Series. A series to connect you to the stories of the people behind the food on our plates and the countryside we all enjoy. Their different roles, backgrounds, journeys, and reasons they do what they do. To kick this series off, I couldn’t think of anyone better to interview than my biggest farming inspiration, my teacher, mentor… and father.

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Harvest Sagas- Part 2

.Reading time 16 minutes.
Looking up from the base of the stems of a field of golden wheat that's ready for harvesting.

Welcome to part 2 of this year’s Harvest Sagas. It’s certainly been a long one, the first to stretch into October for quite some time…

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Harvest Sagas- Part 1

.Reading time 9 minutes.
Close up of a field of wheat, it's still green but the ears are there and the leaves are starting to get a yellow tinge.

Harvest Time It’s the slow humming of the combine, out of sight but not to be mistaken. The sight of golden carpets adorning the countryside, bales of straw popping up here, there and everywhere, children begging to stay out in the garden just a little longer to get a glimpse of the ginormous combine harvester… […]

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A GIRL, A GODDESS, AND A THUNDERSTORM

.Reading time 21 minutes.
Close up of a golden calf curled up in the straw.

Today, I’ve got a story I’d like to tell you. It involves a girl, who longed to go outside and see the cows, a heifer, who wasn’t supposed to still be here, and the calf she was never meant to have…

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Calving 2020

.Reading time 15 minutes.

While most of the world has stood still, the cows (and the humans) have been as busy as ever here. So, I thought it was time to give you a recap of this year’s calving season, complete with some calf spam to brighten your day!

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