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This Autumn has been extremely wet with October bringing a total of 216mm of rain – with over 110mm in one day with Storm Babet. You might say, at that point, that the tide came in (!), this has left us with less Winter Wheat (-10%) and more Spring Cropping as  a result of the
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PROPERTIES HAVE NOW BEEN LET. We are delighted to present two of our recently renovated cottages, now available on the letting market. 2 Metheringham Lodge Cottage is an attractive and uniquely characterful property, located at the rural heart of the Blankney Estate. Surrounded by fields, the property is a 3 bed, semi-detached house with ample
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Since our last update we completed our cereal harvest on the 8th September; a year we might choose to forget! Yields have been below our 5 year average with winter cereals averaging in a low yield quartile, with not a lot of difference between varieties. Short season spring cropping delivered of our poorest yields for
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Better weather recently has allowed us to complete our winter and spring beans, dry peas and winter wheat harvest, with the last crop remaining, April drilled spring barley – this is not yet fit to be harvested. Overall, the harvest has been disappointing; wheat crops entered the early part of the spring with good potential
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We are delighted to present our latest rental property which will soon be available on the lettings market:- 2 Metheringham Lodge Cottage. The Cottage is an attractive and uniquely characterful property, located at the rural heart of the Blankney Estate. Surrounded by fields, the property is a 3 bed, semi-detached house with ample garden space.
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The recent wet weather has been frustrating for both the crop drying season and the combinable crop harvest. It’s been stop/start over the last two weeks, however, the wet weather has saved us the cost of irrigating grass; it has also improved our yield prospects for future cuts of lucerne, grass and better yields from
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The crop drying season has progressed well and recent unsettled conditions have given us good grass grwoth and topped up our soil moistures, with many fields now returning to field capacity. As a result of this, we stopped irrigating 10 days ago. We’re nearing the end of our first lucerne cut and final fields of
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This week, we have completed our forage rye harvest – which is providing very similar results to our winter barley harvest; yields are around 7% above our five year average. We’ve also been busy harvesting grass for British Chlorophyll and timothy and lucerne for horse feeds. This year, the quality of our forage crops has
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The extended dry period has been broken with 30mm of rain last week – sadly not in time to help our vining pea crop, which will, at best, be below average yield – after our harvest last week. For the rest of our crops, the rain has come in time and we’re expecting a good
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Over this last two weeks, we have seen some excellent crop growth! We remain very busy with our crop drying hay and lucerne and our timothy crop is now just two weeks away from harvest. The viners will be starting next week and by the end of the month, we will begin harvesting our own
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