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Home Farm: slurry season opens

The amount of money involved to stock up with cattle for beef is so large and the risk of loss so real that it seems a no-brainer that there should be some form of forward price guarantee on offer.

VIEWPOINTS 14 January 2026

Home Farm: slurry season opens

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Home Farm: beef market surprises

Home Farm: beef market surprises

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Home Farm: sophisticated solar

Home Farm: sophisticated solar

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Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

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Home Farm: starting our solar journey

Home Farm: starting our solar journey

Home Farm: starting our solar journey

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Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

Home Farm: a blip or a trend?

The dry, cooler weather has allowed us to graze out the remaining paddocks with light cattle. All the heavier ones are in at this stage.

VIEWPOINTS 15 October 2025

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

Home Farm: avoidance of compaction key

The key I am convinced, apart from draining obvious wet areas, is to avoid compaction during the sowing season.

VIEWPOINTS 15 October 2025

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

If the rain continues we will have to consider housing everything, though that would eat into our silage supplies and affect our store buying programme in the spring

VIEWPOINTS 15 October 2025

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

All the wheat is now above ground with the tramlines becoming more visible by the day.

VIEWPOINTS 15 October 2025

Home Farm: picture perfect winter barley

Home Farm: picture perfect winter barley

At this stage I am not sure whether we will apply an aphicide to the more barley yellow dwarf virus vulnerable variety.

VIEWPOINTS 15 October 2025

Home Farm: winter preparation continues

Home Farm: winter preparation continues

We seem to have been spared the intense downpours of the south and we have an abundance of aftergrass which we will graze paddock by paddock, moving the fence daily to avoid too much damage.

VIEWPOINTS 15 October 2025

Home Farm: cattle back out by day

Home Farm: cattle back out by day

We are not quite finished all the sowing but with the forecast so good, we are expecting to get it finished and rolled within the next day or so.

VIEWPOINTS 15 October 2025

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Calving season is just around the corner and many dairy farmers are preparing for one of the busiest times of the year.

How calving alerts take the pressure off

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