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Your plot is positioned on the Hillpiece field position SO2863 Number 0512 a 15.4 acre field at around 900 to 1020 feet high it is one of our highest. It has been laid down to grass now some for 10 years or more and is mainly used for grazing but has also been mowed for hay and silage for the last two years which has been sold for feed. It has superb views and to the South you can view the Malvern hills or the Brecon Beacons.In the foreground Herefordshire, with its Hergest Ridge is seen prostrate between the two former land marks, immortalised by Mike Oldfield in his "Tubular Bells" one of the all time greatest selling albums of all time Which he wrote while living in the area ...
NEWS
LETTER:
Each quarter you will receive a news letter featuring the field that contains
your plot, detailing all operations along with photographs and any anecdotal
occurrences that have happened on your area ~~~
SHORT EXERT ~~~ SPRING 2002 NEWS LETTER:
SYNOPSIS:
Generally a quiet time of year where everything is waking up after the
Winter. Plans are being made, waiting for the right moment to begin field
operations. After the recent gales there has been a certain amount of
clearing up of debri, but we have seen worse...
Arable.
Little to report at this time although the barley is looking a little
yellow in colour the wheats continue to look well, as does the oats with
the Oilseed Rape starting to awaken after Winter too. We are gearing up
to apply the first taste of fertiliser and of course the price has jumped
up again this year to £120 and its becoming prohibitively expensive. Disease
levels of mildew and septoria do not yet warrant action and therefore
we will hold back until absolutely necessary...
Grassland.
The grass too is awaiting its first application of fertiliser to get some
early growth of grass started, livestock have been off now since mid January
and things look generally fresher. The next few weeks will see things
alter and then the sheep will appear in....
Woodland.
The woods are now beginning to bud and as temperatures rise the colours
will thicken and deepen until a canopy of green appears for the summer...
Field Operations.
Hillpiece, Cwm Rappit, Barn Meadow, Watercalls, Cow Pasture,
Petty Fields.
Grassland Fields that received its first application of fertiliser today
the 3rd of March. It was a compound of 20 units nitrogen 10 units phosphate
and 10 units potash, a traditional non-forcing analysis that any Farmer
would recognise ...
Hares, Radnors, Far Radnors, Bottom Meadows and Sawpit.
All planted to wheat of the Madrigal variety, due its first feed of Nitrogen
at a rate of 1.25 bags per acre, a low first dressing so as any late downpours
don't leach it out in the early stages...
(PLEASE NOTE THIS IS ONLY A SHORT EXTRACT OF
THE NEWS LETTER)