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Trevor Hayne South West Farmer, South West Farmer Hayne
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Trials to find variety that consistently performs
3:23pm Wednesday 27th May 2009
WITH the weather being quite kind to us both during and since Easter, soils were able to dry out a little earlier this year, thus enabling seedbed cultivations and drillings to start from about the third week of April
Expect the unexpected
3:16pm Wednesday 29th April 2009
HAVING experienced two successive wet summers, the law of averages suggests that this year should be better and that big yellow ball of fire in the sky should appear on a more regular basis. Hmm!!
Forage crops: The options for you!
4:25pm Wednesday 4th March 2009
IT is now the beginning of March and already a number of you are planning your cropping programmes - not just for next winter's feeding but also supplementary crops for grazing during the coming summer and autumn.
Maize helps beef
12:43pm Wednesday 28th January 2009
SOMERSET farmer Roy Loud (Alstone Court Partners) has been a beef farmer ever since moving to Alstone Court Farm, near Highbridge in Somerset back in 1980 - prior to that being a dairy farmer near Chard.
SWF - Moving tale of success
2:53pm Tuesday 20th January 2009
DAVID and Yvonne Stroud (DJ & YM Stroud) first began dairy farming in 1980 when they took on the tenancy of a 110-acre council farm in Oxfordshire - in fact 1980 was doubly productive in that both their business and family started that same year.
Another difficult year for maize
12:12pm Saturday 6th December 2008
I have been reporting on a series of forage maize trials since 2005 and the concensus of opinion seems to suggest that growers find the results and comments both interesting and useful (and long may that continue), in that they are derived from sites that try and represent the bulk of commercial sites on which maize is grown throughout the region.
Timing is so crucial
11:42am Thursday 6th November 2008
JUST in case it has momentarily slipped your memory, 2008 hasn't really been that good to us - has it? I am fully aware that we have once again benefited from a total relaxation of a hose pipe ban and dust storms have been confined to a dim and distant 2006, but the above average rainfall and below average sunshine hours this summer has led to the creation of potential feeding problems this winter for virtually everyone.
Maize harvesting will be even later next year
2:11pm Tuesday 14th October 2008
IT is September and I am sat at my desk desperately trying to find something positive to say about the year - like how good the cereal harvests were, the quality of grass silage being at an all time high and how such a wonderful summer has contributed to a very early maize harvest - and it is all true you know.
Seed firm grows from its humble beginnings
12:40pm Thursday 4th September 2008
FRUSTRATED at having to work for somebody else and continually thinking that "I could do this myself - but much better", a decision was made to give it a go and in 1967, Mike Pearce "went on his own".
Ignore the potential of grass at your peril
11:00am Thursday 14th August 2008
THERE are 16 million farmable or manageable acres of grassland in the UK - a figure that should highlight to everyone, the importance that this crop represents to today's livestock farmers.
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