Mat & Lloyd Smith run Lodesend Drove Farm in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. The 450-acre enterprise has a wide rotation, growing twelve crops, including wheat, barley, potatoes, sugar beet, beans, sunflowers, linseed and millet.
In this introductory video, we get to meet the brothers and learn about their wide-rotation of crops on farm.
They discuss a number of topics, including their commitment to the environment and connection to the local community, the drainage system around their farm, different soil types, diversification, and a summary on how the cropping year has gone so far during an extremely challenging season.
00:04 Introduction to Mat & Lloyd and crops on farm
01:08 Environment & Sustainability
02:01 Changing farming practices
03:04 Soil types on farm
03:37 Drainage system
04:02 Potatoes
05:10 Diversification - bird seed
06:43 Establishing a good seedbed
07:19 Challenging season
08:08 Weather affecting yields
08:52 Winter beans
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