Huggate Monitor Farm summer meeting

Join us for a summer farm walk at Huggate Monitor Farm.

At his 657 ha, high-altitude family farm on the top of the Yorkshire Wolds, Gary grows winter wheat for feed, winter malting barley, oilseed rape/spring barley, vining peas for Birds Eye and potatoes, using a plough-based system. Please join us for our summer meeting to revisit this established Monitor Farm and discuss the evolution of the farm during the programme to date as well as how these objecties have grown and diversified.

This session will be an opportunity to discuss current topics and activity at your local Monitor Farm, and how the programme will evolve for the coming winter season. Topics to be discussed include:

• How the farm business is progressing and evolving in areas including soil type, cropping and cultivation strategy
• The machinery and equipment on the farm, highlighting the cost of production and benefits of Farmbench
• Grain storage and marketing
• The diversification of the business into a B&B and pig production

The meeting will also be an the opportunity to look at the business and to identify key local issues, opportunities and topics that you would be interested in covering for the winter programme.

We look forward to welcoming you back on-farm to see what the focus, objectives and plans are for the forthcoming year.

Due to coronavirus restrictions, this meeting will be limited to 30 people - booking is therefore essential. Refreshments will not be provided but bottled water will be available. Hand sanitiser stations will also be available and social distancing measures will be in place. As we will be outside for the farm walk, please bring appropriate footwear and clothing for the weather. To read the AHDB COVID events protocol, please click here.

This meeting is free to attend, but please register using the 'Book Now' button. BASIS and NRoSO points will also be available for attending these meetings.

For more information, please contact Rose via rose.riby@ahdb.org.uk or 0774189 2283.