Written by Tom Allen-Stevens from CPM Magazine
Download PDF A Hampshire estate is finding there are no limits to the sustainable growth that can be achieved through a partnership approach to stacking complementary enterprises. CPM visits to find out. We’re exploring how many enterprises we can support in the rotation that not only make money but also build soil health. By Tom Allen-Stevens Overlooking the main farmyard at the Kingsclere Estate is a hillside field of temporary grass that has circles of bare soil spaced out evenly towards its summit. “That’s our variable-rate fertiliser application,” explains Tim May, who runs the farming business over the 1000ha family-owned Hampshire estate. When the cattle move up the hill to graze the silage bales, they also move the nutrients and the goodness uphill to the poorer soil. “We have soil of varying thickness over chalk with clay caps and a high flint content. So we grow fodder beet on the more fertile land of the valley bottom and place the round silage bales towards the top of the hill on the poorer soil. The cattle graze the fodder beet then move up to the silage, which also moves the nutrients and the goodness uphill.” The land is in the…
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Download PDF A Hampshire estate is finding there are no limits to the sustainable growth that can be achieved through a partnership approach to stacking complementary enterprises. CPM visits to find out. We’re exploring how many enterprises we can support in the rotation that not only make money but also build soil health. By Tom Allen-Stevens Overlooking the main farmyard at the Kingsclere Estate is a hillside field of temporary grass that has circles of bare soil spaced out evenly towards its summit. “That’s our variable-rate fertiliser application,” explains Tim May, who runs the farming business over the 1000ha family-owned Hampshire estate. When the cattle move up the hill to graze the silage bales, they also move the nutrients and the goodness uphill to the poorer soil. “We have soil of varying thickness over chalk with clay caps and a high flint content. So we grow fodder beet on the more fertile land of the valley bottom and place the round silage bales towards the top of the hill on the poorer soil. The cattle graze the fodder beet then move up to the silage, which also moves the nutrients and the goodness uphill.” The land is in the…
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