Arable Farmer Focus FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: A cold start to the year, but not cold enoughThe start to the year has been positive, with some lovely cold weather. Sadly, it wasn’t cold enough to give us free concrete. The attempt at mole ploughing and ploughing… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Finances post-BPS dictate my stress levelsI will start my first article of 2025 by reviewing our previous year. Last year started with wet weather impeding field work. Poor cashflow caused me stress, and we had… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Great to see support for charity tractor runBack on 15 December, Louth held its fifth annual tractor run, hosting 143 tractors. This event wouldn’t go ahead if it was not for the volunteers and, of course, farmers… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Taking land out of production for solar is lunacyLife as a farmer is always changing, like the seasons of the year. We never know what there is in store for us, but we always face it head on,… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Scrap price subsoiler is first machinery buyFirstly, happy new year to everyone, although there’s nothing much to make you very happy in our industry currently. In my 30 years of farm management I don’t think I’ve… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Crop plans for autumn 2025 almost doneHappy new year all. I hope everyone had a fantastic festive period and that 2025 brings prosperity, enjoyment and some stonking yields. Dad and I have almost completed crop planning… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Surely 2025 can’t be any worse than last yearFinally, 2024 has crept towards its end. It’s not often that I wish time away, in fact I make a concerted effort not to as I never seem to have… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: New year harvest for June-drilled grain maizeHere in Cambridgeshire we have been very lucky with the weather in comparison to others. It has been wet, but with nothing like the amount of rain experienced across the… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Never mind the tractors, here's a spreadsheetDo you make new year resolutions? I do. Usually a whole list of them. I get quite obsessive about them too, reviewing how I am doing at the end of… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Hope top-earning linseed also delivers in 2025Happy New Year to you all! Time to get motivated after a relaxing break from it all over Christmas and the New Year, mainly based around family, friends and shooting… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: Much to learn from farmer overseasAs 2024 comes to a close, it’s fair to say it’s been a difficult year and a lot of change has taken place. 2025 is a new year and we… FARMER FOCUSFarmer Focus: To really learn we must realise our ignoranceFifteen years ago I read a book which seemed to join up the swarm of random dots in my head called Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows. At its simplest,… More articles
