Chatcull Farm

Staffordshire dairy farm producing milk for Tesco/Muller. Interested in farming for environmental benefit.

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@muddymuddymum Even the ‘your child’s attendance is yellow and therefore ok’ letter we got went straight on the fire. It still left me feeling that less that 100% was bad!

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@leach_becki Well, my 5 year old has been drafting his letter to Santa since August… He’s been banned from posting it until November 🤣

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@JoeWStanley I just gave up trying at this stage 🤣🤣

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@c_dodson_thatch You might want to edit those photos to obscure date of birth 😊

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@Beckside_Farm @jimclark67crop That looks better than ours 😊

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Maize stubble now revealing Tornado ryegrass undersown in early June. Quite pleased with the result given that it barely rained after it was drilled! Anyone else tried this for the first time? #teamdairy

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‘Traditional’ maize stubble for comparison. Largely brown!

[Sarah Bolt @DairySarahB]

Dr Hannah Vickery “Familiarity is the biggest barrier to motivating change” #widconf22

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This is as good as we can get ours and still getting a persistent anonymous complaint 🙁

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I never thought I’d write the phrase ‘significant mud event’. How clean is it possible to keep a quiet single track road with twice daily cows crossing? Interested in how often people bucket brush their farm roads! #teamdairy

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More experimenting, this time with a ryegrass/red and white clover reseed for silage… more protein for the cows with less applied N? Inching our way towards more sustainable farming. #teamdairy

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Cover crop drilled into winter wheat stubble starting to get going😊 The winter vetch seems to be happiest of the mix in this light field #teamdairy #farming

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@howemill @LeChameau1927 @aigleuk Oh no, mine have given up the ghost after a valiant 8 years service…I was going to replace like for like… maybe not now!

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@nutrition_annie Where do you recommend getting water analysed?

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@LudlowNomes Following… our 50 year old oil fired Aga has given up the ghost. Ideas for what to replace it with in a cold, old, north facing kitchen welcome!!

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@farmerThomo Do you roll it after direct drilling? Cover crop newbie here wanting to get it right!

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@FarmersOfTheUK Really interesting week and shows how having a holistic purpose/mission statement that everyone buys into (and thus importance of succession planning) really helps drive management decision making and pushes a business forwards. Well done!

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@farmerdanb Ooh vermicompost? 🧐 It wouldn’t work on our farm 🤣

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Thank you @StaffsWildlife for a great afternoon with ADAS surveying the farm for a Whole Farm water report. Learnt lots in the 35 degree heat!

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@FarmersOfTheUK What’s the Shikimate Pathway?