I am not sure if this is a false spring or not, despite the cold weather the ground is drying quickly.

Crops are looking well coming out of the winter thanks to the easy autumn. We managed to keep planting winter crops so have less of a burden this spring.

We tentatively started planting spring oats yesterday but decided, with the good forecast and only a thousand acres to drill that we can give it a few more days to dry. We can cover 500 acres a day drilling if we have both of our drills going so, we thought it best to let conditions improve slightly. It will be lovely to be drilled up in February and make March less of a hectic month.

As I write (in a tractor because I haven’t been in the office for days!) I am spreading fertiliser and all winter crops will have had a dose by the end of today. Our fertiliser spreader and logistics wagon allow us to hit really high outputs. Hopefully by the end of today I will have spread fertiliser over 3000 acres of winter cereals averaging around 1000 acres a day.

Timeliness is everything, and in order to keep the high attention detail we demand over a large area we need the best kit available to us. I’ve attached a picture of our fertiliser spreader and tractor set up.

Well done for all the hard work ongoing in stores, I recently had a look around CAPC and met some of the guys in the control room. Really impressive work going on.

Adam