Matthew

uk arable family farmer producing bread wheat 🍞 & malting barley 🍺 in oxfordshire 🚜 @JustFarmersUk farmer 👍 NE Cotswold Cluster member/director 🐦‍⬛

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

I’m glad the pros do the ewes but that’s scratched my shearing itch for this year 😅

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

@Jes_Squirrell We’ve got sheep on ours, then cultivating behind for a seed bed. Too much forage to leave this year and will make drilling easier with the sabre tine.

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

Stubble turnips in to abit of moisture, despite the dust coming off the very top. Hopefully it’s enough to get some roots down. All our land planned for spring crop has something sown for sheep forage, let’s hope it grows to help some mouths this winter 🤞 #ukag #farming #summer

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It's home, again.

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

Back from holiday, ease myself back in to it with spraying off a spring barley crop with questionable black grass 😩😩 need a few cows for some whole crop…

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

Failed wheat due to storm bert washing the seed away! Rolling the dice on spring barley once I’ve repaired some compaction, lots of dust but moisture a plenty underneath

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

This week of weather has helped us out massively, soils been drying enough to get some wheat in 👌

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

@HeadysFarm @harrym_vids Have you tried JMT combines at Ladbroke for a tyre for the combine? They might have something 👍

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

@RingersWm @TWBFarms @DefraGovUK @JanetHughes @KapilaSandy We applied for the funding with surveying included roughly £200 per farm, the application used the surveys to justify that the bird mix/feed was actually worthwhile for farmland birds.

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

@RingersWm @TWBFarms @DefraGovUK @JanetHughes @KapilaSandy Our cluster group got funding from our AONB through Farming in protected landscapes which helped fund our local farmland bird group with feed/monitoring. Might be worth looking in to those areas for funding

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

Family time 🙌

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

Fixing the spring line, dug in 60 odd years ago, just starting to show its age on some joints 💦💦

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

New Holland still in pieces… magnum 7220 to the rescue, land just about going to get some air in there

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

@TommyTJ_97

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

@TommyTJ_97

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

@alextomlins_ Got a winner at 12/1 but did the wrong bet and put 35p instead of 3.50 😭

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

Sheep 🤬

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

#triggerpoint not the stress free watching every Sunday that we need in this house 🫣

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

Carpet farming is getting abit out of hand 😬

[Matthew @MatthewIzod]

@becsygrover We use bronsens at chipping Norton for the cluster cic /our own business. Possibly not the cheapest but very thorough 🙌

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