Welcome to Hall Farm Metton - Controlled Traffic...
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Welcome to Hall Farm Metton
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• 255.6 ha • Tenant of the National Trust • Some owned since 1997 • Other land on FBT • 20 ha of grass sucklers /store cattle • Countryside Stewardship since 1993 • ELS since 2010
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Background
• Large area of potatoes up until 2005
• Contract farming 2006 – 2010
• Took the farm back Autumn 2010 – wet Autumn, Summer drought!
• Perfect Autumn 2011,
wet Spring/Summer 2012
Spring 1970
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• Own machinery, share a combine with our neighbour
• No staff, casual help at harvest • Rotation – aim: –Sugar beet –Wheat/spring barley –Winter barley –Oil seed rape/potatoes(20ha
annually) –Winter wheat
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Challenges
• Weather – too wet, too dry!
• Timing
• Compaction
• Resources – labour and machinery
• Soils – variability
• Fields – size, shape, slope
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Challenges
• Straw
• Weeds – volunteer potatoes and cereals
• Slugs!
• Pigeons, game birds, skylarks
• Organic matter
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Positives
• Easy working soils
• Weather
• Irrigation
• Good choice of crop options
• We enjoy doing it!