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Thursday, 14 August 2008
August 2008
Posted by chrisbailey
Harvest starts It has a busy time over the last few weeks. Harvesting started on 28/7/08 with oilseed rape obliterated within a four hour period by the contractor’s two new combines. Yields, estimated from the combines, show that the broadcast rape...
Thursday, 8 May 2008
May
Posted by chrisbailey
Birds The migrants are back. After a slow start, due to cold weather, numbers of whitethroat, yellow wagtail and swallow recorded are now close to last year’s numbers. Highlights so far are the two lapwing displaying and six yellow wagtails on one...
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
April 2008
Posted by chrisbailey
April’s here it must mean the start of summer monitoring It is always an exciting time looking forward to seeing the results of another breeding season. The research team started the summer monitoring at the start of April. This consists of recording...
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
February 2008
Posted by chrisbailey
Winter bird monitoring. We monitor wintering birds on the whole farm and divide the records into field or boundary categories. The whole farm counts are completed on a monthly basis from October through to February. These counts have shown that birds...
Monday, 26 November 2007
November 2007
Posted by chrisbailey
Harvest results A slow harvest finished at the start of September when the spring beans were finally harvested with results from all crops disappointing. Wheat yields (variety Robigus) were down 17% from last year’s 10.4t/ha to 8.64t/ha. This was...
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