Whichford and Ascott Web-
What Is Now Growing in Whichford Fields?
Some of your questions answered.
Gottenham, Mear Hill and Smethe Hill
Winter barley for animal feed or malting, depending on the quality.
Behind the Pottery
Feed wheat aimed at animal feed or for ethanol production at a plant in Manchester. There is another big plant being built in Teeside.
Around Doctors Barn:
125 acres of winter wheat, variety Casius, for bread making.
At New Barn
The Spring crop will probably be barley, but unless the price improves from £80 a ton we will find an alternative.
Sturch’s Barn (on the way to Stourton)
30 acres of spring beans will be sown.
Hades, Infield and Longcliff
120 acres of spring beans will be sown.
Many thanks to Rob Harvey and Duncan Jack of Brakelands Farm Swalecliffe for this information.
For Duncan’s web-
