The farming year at Lynford House Farm starts in September.

Choose a period to find out what happens on the farm in different months of the year.

April

Plant potatoes
Drill vining peas
Top dress wheats
Spray wheats and sugar beet

May

Spray potatoes, wheats, sugar beet and peas

June

Irrigate potatoes

July

Irrigate potatoes
Spray potatoes
Vining peas

August

Harvest wheat

September

Drilling winter wheat
Sub-soiling
General cultivations
Harvest potatoes (harvester and labour contracted to tenant)

October

Harvest potatoes (harvester and labour contracted to tenant)
Harvest sugar beet
Drill winter wheat

November

Ploughing
Late drilling of wheat
Liquid fertiliser applied to sugar beet fields

December

Ploughing
Spray wheat

January

General farm maintenance

February

General farm maintenance

March

Top dress wheats
Liquid fertiliser applied to potato fields
Drill sugar beet