Real Results Pioneers – The icing on the cake

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Download PDF Bringing together the building blocks of a farming system forms the focus of activities at Forrest Farms in Suffolk. Once in place, using the best available technology brings results, as CPM finds out. I know that soil health is at its optimum, and the crop will be given every chance to perform. By Tom Allen-Stevens From the moment you arrive at the buildings of Forrest Farms, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, you know the farming operation you’re about to see will impress. On one side of the yard, spray operator Richard Farrow has drawn up the Agrifac self-propelled sprayer with its 5000-litre tank and 40m booms inside the new, purpose-built spray shed. Opposite, in the remarkably clean and well-ordered workshop, farm foreman Robert Hale and Dale White are putting the finishing touches to the Väderstad Tempo 12-row drill, ready to establish the sugar beet – you sense the quiet air of confidence from a team that’s at the top of their game. There’s a quiet air of confidence from a team at Forrest Farms that’s at the top of their game. It’s a standard that fifth generation farmer James Forrest is keen to maintain. “The long-term view for any family…
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