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Saltburn Monitor Farm
Name:
John Aynsley
Location:
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland
Farm sectors:
Cereals & Oilseeds
About Saltburn Monitor Farm
- Barns Farm was a Monitor Farm from June 2017 to June 2020
- Total farm area: 566 ha growing a rotation of winter barley, oilseed rape, and wheat
- In addition to the arable enterprise John also manages 1,300 breeding ewes and 450 spring-calving suckler cows
- Soil types: light loam to heavy clay
John Aynsley runs a 1,302 ha mixed farm near Saltburn-by-the-Sea in North East England. Covering 566 ha, he grows a rotation of winter barley, oilseed rape, and wheat on light loam to heavy clay.
Combinable crops are established using a min-till approach and all grain is dried and stored on farm. In addition to the arable enterprise, John also manages 1,300 breeding ewes and 450 spring-calving suckler cows. The main challenge which John aims to address on the farm is soil management. John is already a member of the Darlington Benchmarking Group and has been benchmarking since it started. By participating in the Monitor Farm programme, he hopes to prepare his business to be profitable without direct payments.
View current C&O Monitor Farms in the North East
Meeting reports and regional webinars:
- Webinar: North East Monitor Farms regional update – YouTube, 1 hour 20 minutes (3 February 2021)
- Webinar: North East Monitor Farm summer meeting 2020 – YouTube, 1 hour 28 minutes (2 July 2020)
- How to get the best out of your sprays and sprayer – meeting report (20 February 2020)
- Markets and marketing – meeting report (23 January 2020)
- Farming and wildlife – meeting report (12 December 2019)
- Review of second year at Saltburn Monitor Farm – meeting report (12 November 2019)
- Summer meeting 2019 – meeting report (6 June 2019)
- Tyres, drainage and cultivation – meeting report (28 February 2019)
- Trace elements and micronutrients – meeting report (17 January 2019)
- Buying a new grain dryer – merits of different types and costs – meeting report (13 December 2018)
- Farm walk and review of first year including lessons learnt – meeting report (8 November 2018)
- Summer meeting 2018 – meeting report (24 May 2018)
- Precision farming – meeting report (3 May 2018)
- Marketing and varieties – meeting report (23 January 2018)
- Controlling fixed costs – meeting report (12 December 2017)
- Controlling grass weeds, rotations and understanding soil chemistry – meeting report (1 November 2017)
- Launch meeting – meeting report (6 June 2017)
