Overwort?

Location
Suffolk
Just out of curiosity really - is it an East Anglian term to refer to working 90 degrees to the previous pass/normal way a field is farmed as going 'overwort'? Perhaps other areas have different names for it a bit like Scoots/Short Work/Running Land/Gores/Gearings/Cuttings?
 

marshfarmer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Norfolk
Up and down, overwort or on the huh inbetween.
Scoots, or skewts I imagine it being spelt and it's either this end or yon end you have to work to/from.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
I would call it "back breaker" or "boom buster".
Why would you work across the normal direction ?
I know a farmer who would roll a field one way, then again at 90 degrees. Some sow grass that way too. Before tramlines came in, I knew a farmer who started one seeder going one one side of the field and another working st 90 degrees.
 

yellowbelly

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
I know a farmer who would roll a field one way, then again at 90 degrees
Before the advent of slug pellets, this was an early form of slug control. Two passes at 90 degrees with a Cambridge roll left a pattern of squares on the ground. The theory was that slugs could only make right turns. A slug would then only be able to eat any seed in one square and would keep going round and round until he starved to death.:D:LOL::LOL::ROFLMAO:
 

renewablejohn

Member
Location
lancs
Before the advent of slug pellets, this was an early form of slug control. Two passes at 90 degrees with a Cambridge roll left a pattern of squares on the ground. The theory was that slugs could only make right turns. A slug would then only be able to eat any seed in one square and would keep going round and round until he starved to death.:D:LOL::LOL::ROFLMAO:

Had a similar tale but the squares would create a moat if wet and slugs would starve rather than cross the water.
 

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Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer from July will give the sector a clear path forward and boost farm business resilience.

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