AB15 Legume fallow doing the beesiness!🐝🐝

20 years since this field that’s in quite an arable weighted crop rotation last saw the hooves of a ruminant. Essentially due to being the one outlying field on the farm that’s on the other side of a busy main road. Thanks to a tempting looking bit of silage aftermath we’ve made

No early harvest here… Wheels haven’t even turned yet! October drilled wheat has only just come ripe in the past couple of days and typically the weather has now turned 🌧️☔️. Not rushing to cut wet grain this year and watch all of our profits burned away in a grain dryer so

Summer cover crops have been incredible this year! Just need to figure out how to destroy them effectively now, as there is an unreal amount of biomass to take care of!🌻🐝

A 2:00am start yesterday for a trip up to Longtown. Brought 133 Cheviot mule gimmers back to Herefordshire which we shall be contract managing for a nearby farm, as well as 42 ewe lambs that will join our flock in addition to a similar number of our home bred Scotch halfbred ewe

Wipers on, combine parked up. Due to crops being slow to ripen we’ve only cut 25 acres of wheat so far. Chanced it and had a go this morning, two laps of the field and the rain came. Never known a year as testing.

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A nice little heifer calf popped out by Boycefield Purport this afternoon, up and suckling. Sired by Boycefield Wrangler.

Another powerful little Wrangler heifer calf overnight. Boycefield Glance got her out and on to her feet no problem! #BoycefieldHerefords

If anyone is wondering where all the insects are… they’re trying to get in my tractor cab! 🦟

Diverse catch crop growing between agroforestry rows in a field surrounded by 10ft high hedges. Ready for wheat to be direct drilled into it in a couple of weeks time. Looking after our little corner of the world in the best ways we can!🌳🌾

Keeping it green in front of the cattle. Zero input permanent pasture doing the business year on year! 🐮

What was a lovely drying morning was quickly ruined at lunch time, again... There goes any plans to try and cut any more wheat for a while. If you go outside now you can see your breath it’s that cold! What a stinker of a summer we’re having.

Been busy with the Rapid this week overseeding herbal leys all over the place. Hope it all grows now! ☘️

Looking forward to hosting this! September 26th, Loads of great speakers, come and have a look at what we’re up to here at Boycefield. Hopefully we will have finished harvest by then. Better start tidying the yard up!

Knocking down the catch crop between apple trees. There’s a lot of grass regrowth beneath the catch crop so making sure we expose it all for a good spray off in the coming weeks!