March

Jim and Wendy had sown malting barley, a relatively low input crop, for many years so we thought we’d continue to observe the land by sowing the same again. Sam cultivated and drilled the barley in the middle of March, we settled on the tried and tested ‘Tipple’ variety with the hope that it will make the malting premium at harvest it was then a case of rolling in and leaving. N fertiliser and a grass weed and broadleaf herbicide application to follow in in April.