Farming by season
Spring
- Spreading pig poo on the fields
- Plough land and get ready for spring drilling
- Drill (sow) spring barley and beans
- Drilling sugar beet
- Drilling carrots
- Fertilise winter wheat and oil seed rape
- Spray crops to protect from pests and disease and keep them healthy
Summer
- Irragate (water) carrots
- Visit farm shows to see what new machines are out there
- Service machines ready for harvest
- Harvest the oil seed rape, winter wheat, spring barley and spring beans
- Load lorries of grain and they go to the big grainstore at hemswell
- Lead straw bales to the piggery
- Trim hedges
Autumn
- Lift (harvest) sugar beet and take to the newark sugar beet factory
- Spreading pig poo on the fields
- Cultivate the land for the next winter crop
- Drill (sow) the winter wheat, oil seed rape
- Clean machines and put away for winter
Winter
- Lifting sugar beet and loading into lorries
- Harvesting carrots
- Planting hedges
- Digging dykes out
- Clearing land drains to keep water off the fields
- Workshop jobs eg repair and service machines
- We shoot game for 8 days in the winter
- Visit farm shows to see what new machines are out there
- Office work and paper work