How one farm is scrutinising its cropping costs

摘要

The AHDB's new Wisbech Monitor Farm hosts, father and son Andrew and Sam Melton, are focusing on the challenges to profitability as they start their three-year stint as part of the Monitor Farm network.Most immediately, the legacy of the very difficult 2019-20 cropping year means they are looking at ways to get the farm's rotation back on track, while continuing to bring machinery and establishment costs down without any detriment to yield. As part ofthat, both men are considering whether they should persevere with oilseed rape, if cover crops have a remedial role on their heavy soils and how they can make best use of all the data that their farming and contracting business is generating.