- Location
- Berkshire
What’s the largest field in that block ??
That’s on the Border with the Plain isn’t it ??
Very large block of land though
Largest Arable Field in England
- Thread starter Shilly Boy
- Start date
That’s on the Border with the Plain isn’t it ??
Very large block of land though
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
I once had a field with 22 acres, 20 corners and eleven poles
- Location
- Wiltshire
Your not far from me
There’s a few i know of around here about 300ac. It may be stretching the description of a field but there are some blocks of schedule 3 on the plain which are much larger.
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Half of our area is on an estate with an average field size of 25ha, much of it used to be orchards and there is a lot of piping under the ground which is starting to cause issues in places. Biggest field is about 60ha. Decent shapes aswell. The productivity is mega. Also have another farm with average field size of 6ha, output is easily halved.
108, 80 and 68 hectares roughly at the moment. We actually have two other fields over 100 hectares which makes my job a dream
- Location
- Berkshire
Similar sizes here, 20ha av and largest field 80ha plus the Farms ring fenced, it makes a hell of a difference to output
yorkie
Member
- Location
- pe34 norfolk,but not born there
there used to be one at the side of a505 between Royston and boldock that was over 500 acres until it got split into smaller ones
- Location
- Suffolk
Obviously not in England but in Montana we harvested on a farm that was once part of the largest privately owned wheat farm in the world at 90,000ac. We had the fields pre-loaded into our Greenstar screens and the names were simply the acreage.
The story of the farms is very interesting around the beginnings of mechanised farming.
en.wikipedia.org
One of the farms, Fly Creek Farm, was for sale at the time we were there in 2018:
https://montanaranches.com/big-horn-farm-18000000-hardin-mt/
I believe it is now owned or farmed by Monette Farms as they continue their expansion.
The story of the farms is very interesting around the beginnings of mechanised farming.
Thomas D. Campbell - Wikipedia
One of the farms, Fly Creek Farm, was for sale at the time we were there in 2018:
https://montanaranches.com/big-horn-farm-18000000-hardin-mt/
I believe it is now owned or farmed by Monette Farms as they continue their expansion.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Meanwhile, I have 327ac here in 50 fields, mostly surrounded on all sides by hedgerows, and Drakey says I have to plant more trees... 
There was a chap called Greytak in Billings, who went big style sodbusting during the 1980s, grew a bit of an empire at the time, and then pulled back. Wonder if he was involved back in the day.Obviously not in England but in Montana we harvested on a farm that was once part of the largest privately owned wheat farm in the world at 90,000ac. We had the fields pre-loaded into our Greenstar screens and the names were simply the acreage.
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The story of the farms is very interesting around the beginnings of mechanised farming.
Thomas D. Campbell - Wikipedia
One of the farms, Fly Creek Farm, was for sale at the time we were there in 2018:
https://montanaranches.com/big-horn-farm-18000000-hardin-mt/
I believe it is now owned or farmed by Monette Farms as they continue their expansion.
O.Walston visited the place, as mentioned in his Outbursts book.
My parents knew a retired AG Banker from Billings at that time, and Greytak was not that well regarded by the local ranchers, some of whom had experienced the Dust Bowl years.
Gerbert
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- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
Nice. My average field size is 1 hectareMeanwhile, I have 327ac here in 50 fields, mostly surrounded on all sides by hedgerows, and Drakey says I have to plant more trees...
, biggest is a little over 3 hectare.
I know where that is, did you receive chicken muck from us ,use to deliver quite a lot around that area.
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Not arable as in op though!I suppose if you go to the Highlands, there will be 'fields' tens of thousands of acres.
Not that productive though.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
And not in England either.I suppose if you go to the Highlands, there will be 'fields' tens of thousands of acres.
Not that productive though.
Heard of a chap who was reputed to have rented 12k acres of region 3 in one “field”, ran bare minimum stocking levels in it to get the SFP. That would have been a nice cheque.
OP said EnglandI suppose if you go to the Highlands, there will be 'fields' tens of thousands of acres.
Not that productive though.
watfordfrosty
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- Location
- northamptonshire
ensors have or had some big fields at monks kirby one was over 400ac iirc
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