Nesbitt Farms - a natural business

Summer Update 2011

Aug 18, 2011

It’s late July and we are making active preparations to harvest our barley and oats. We consider ourselves fortunate to have survived the worst of the UK weather problems earlier in the year – too cold, too wet, then warm, then drought, which resulted in seriously poor growing conditions in much of the UK.

Our barley and oats seem to have come through these harsh conditions reasonably well and now we are keeping our fingers crossed for fair weather during the harvest period.
With grain values remaining high due to world market shortages we are optimistic that our 2011 grain crop will prove worthwhile financially. However we know from past experience that there is no point ‘counting chickens’ at this time of the year – we will wait and see!

We have not taken livestock to any agricultural events this year, having decided to focus on on-farm activities and give the cows a sabbatical year away from showing.

We have a new set of photographs which we have added to our gallery section and we have used some of these to illustrate the more notable points on the farm since our last update.

We also have a new seasonal notes section.