Talking arable with Alex Wilcox: St Swithun certainly has lived up to his reputation

Alex and Joanna Wilcox live and farm with their three sons at Hill 51AV视频near Downham Market on the Norfolk County Council Stow Estate. Covering 240 hectares of Fen silty clay loam, they grow winter milling wheat, winter feed barley, spring malting barley, spring beans and sugar beet.

Alice Dyer

30 August 2023 鈥� 4 min read

So whilst harvest this year will be categorised as profitable it will also be filed under 鈥榖loody hard work'. The number of times the green machine was caught out in the field by a rogue shower or just...

How one Cheshire farmer is using mixed farming to get on top of grass-weeds

For Cheshire farmer Mike Jones, tackling grass-weeds has not come from one silver bullet solution. Instead, it has been the result of building a more flexible mixed farming system where livestock, forage crops, cultivation strategy and innovative new chemistry all work together

Alice Dyer

01 August 2026 鈥� 6 min read