- Location
- Freuchie, Fife
I am a partner in a mixed business in Fife. We have 800Ha of cereals 50Ha of rented out vegetables and 200+ suckler cows. We also have winter grazing for sheep. In the past there was a dairy here too.
Our experience of direct drilling is minimal: we had a trial field in October 2013 and have managed to extend the trial with a Claydon in October 2014. Sadly, we couldn't get hold of a JD750a to compare this year. Our farm manager has good experience of DD from his time in Suffolk before he came here but it's new to everyone else and there are few people in our region who have tried either. At the moment we plough almost everything and the biggest step we've made recently was reducing the size of the drilling tractor and drill and increasing the tyre size.
Personally, I have only recently come back home having had a career as an accountant (don't hold that against me) so I am not a trained farmer and am approaching current farming issues with a fresh set of eyes. I tried (unsuccessfully this time) for a Nuffield to study regenerative agriculture so I'm trying to learn as much as I can, meet as many people as I can and try again. Anything I can glean from these forums, twitter, books, photos, discussions is going to stand us in good stead.
Our experience of direct drilling is minimal: we had a trial field in October 2013 and have managed to extend the trial with a Claydon in October 2014. Sadly, we couldn't get hold of a JD750a to compare this year. Our farm manager has good experience of DD from his time in Suffolk before he came here but it's new to everyone else and there are few people in our region who have tried either. At the moment we plough almost everything and the biggest step we've made recently was reducing the size of the drilling tractor and drill and increasing the tyre size.
Personally, I have only recently come back home having had a career as an accountant (don't hold that against me) so I am not a trained farmer and am approaching current farming issues with a fresh set of eyes. I tried (unsuccessfully this time) for a Nuffield to study regenerative agriculture so I'm trying to learn as much as I can, meet as many people as I can and try again. Anything I can glean from these forums, twitter, books, photos, discussions is going to stand us in good stead.