Farming is still at the Hodgson family’s core 🌱
is still at the Hodgson family’s core and last week Jonathan Hodgson picked up the silver award at the British Farming Awards as Arable Farmer of the Year just two years on from having picked up the Family Farm of the Year award with his brother Matthew.
“I’ve read and heard a lot about trying to better understand soils. It is a very complex subject and has opened my eyes which has led to other possibilities, such as this year where we have planted peas and beans with oilseed rape, something I would never have done ten years ago. It’s interesting to see how much doing that will feed the crop.
“We haven’t ploughed anything for four years except for 20 acres of peas for Bird’s Eye because that’s a stipulation. Apart from that there are no cultivations undertaken on the farm. That has been the case since 2019.“It is quite remarkable to see how the soils have changed in the past 12 months. We’re seeing far more earthworms and the soil structure on the surface is a lot more crumbly. It now breaks up in your hands and that means it is so much easier.
Great Newsome’s cropping this year was winter wheat, oilseed rape, spring beans, vining peas, spring oats, spring barley, flax and herbal leys with some crops planted together as companion crops.“We harvested 240 acres of wheat, growing the varieties Typhoon, Astronomer, Costello, Theodore and Extase. Typhoon was a new variety. We do a bit of work with Limagrain, largely growing for seed, and they wanted to try Typhoon as they are finding it may be suitable for no-till, strip till systems.
Oilseed rape is the second largest crop with around 100 acres and here Jonathan gives another healthy report. Jonathan is trying new ideas, new tests, he’s using less inputs, his nitrogen usage is down and last year’s winter sown crops performed well with wheat averaging 10.5 tonnes per hectare and rape averaging 4.75 tonnes.
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