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25th July 2015
Wotton House
For generations the Evelyn and Matthews’ family have provided the venue for the Wotton Flower show and the church fete as well as providing parking in the meadow for village teas.
As the flower show has moved from Hatch Meadow down to Wotton House, Christopher has moved his sheep and topped off the grass ready for this year’s show and parking in one of the Damphurst meadows. Let’s hope it doesn’t rain too much.
Throughout the year we are pleased to welcome schools, colleges, home educated children and a variety of other groups to the farm for Educational visits or farm walks to demonstrate mixed farming in the 21st Century, to answer farming questions and Educate all those who wish to learn.
This week we hosted a group visit by Defra staff seeing as many aspect of a mixed working farm as possible in five hours, from the history of tenancies and family farming to modern day food production in the EU.
There were so many topics to cover and in some depth, that we could really do with another day. We looked at crops and why we grow them, soil types, rotations, beef production, conservation grazing and habitat management, cost of wheat production comparing with the sale price on the day of the visit, traceability of livestock and diversification.
We saw the Friesian x cattle being weighed as they are every two weeks to check conformation and weight.
We discussed grain storage and current quality control, and how things have progressed since the original 1950’s and 1970’s grain stores.
the group then saw the new grain store where the contractors were laying the concrete floor.
The afternoon rounded off looking at cattle passports and traceability and discussing the difficulties farmers face in remote parts of the UK having little or no broadband to undertake what should be simple on-line tasks such as registering the birth or death of an animal. It is becoming increasingly difficult for these remote farmers to keep up with all the regulations that are transferring on line.
