Biodiversity, Agriculture, Soil & Environment
David White writes: On the afternoon of Friday 12th April, a small group of members met at the farm of John and William Cooper near Loth, Lincolnshire. Another dry cold day for a farm walk but that didn’t curtail the Continue Reading
Doug has sent the following report: BASE Meeting 26th February 2019. Durie Farm, Leven, Fife. Present: Steve Townsend-BASE-UK Dr. Henry Creissen-SRUC Farmers present:Doug Christie (Host farmer), Sandy Allison, Alan Smith, Robert Watson & Guest, Gregory Hart, Euan Walker Munro, Jock Continue Reading
BASE UK French Farm Tour 6th to 8th November 2018. David White arranged for BASE-UK members to take a trip to France as a follow up on Victor Leforestier’s AGM presentation and 6 members took up the opportunity. David has Continue Reading
David White of Hawk Mill Farm, Cambridgeshire hosted a BASE-UK member farm walk and writes: “Pinch, punch, first of the month and its my BASE-UK farm walk, and its raining, and my RTK office/meeting room on the farm was double Continue Reading
Angus Gowthorpe – BASE-UK Member, who was recently awarded second place in the Soil Farmer of the Year 2018 competition held by the Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit held a farm walk on the 3rd July 2018 at Approach Farm which organised Continue Reading
BASE UK held a trip to Scotland on 30th and 31st October 2017 to visit some of their members’ farms. This is a report from Jock McFarlane. I heard about the Scottish trip through my neighbour Ben Barron who forwarded Continue Reading
We are looking forward to a trip to Scotland on the 30th and 31st October to visit some of our BASE UK members. Monday 30th October – we will be visiting Doug Christie in Durie, Fife. Doug spoke at our Continue Reading
We had about 18 people join us for this farm walk held on 31st October 2016. Some were farmers and their agronomists from Hampshire who are not yet BASE UK members while others were BASE members who came from as Continue Reading
Toby Baxter hosted a farm walk on 13th July 2016. The group met at Chavanage Farm near Cirencester and viewed Toby’s direct drilled Linseed, Winter Barley, 1st and 2nd Wheat and Peas. The Linseed was direct drilled between 10th and 14th May after sheep grazed Continue Reading
Edwin Taylor hosted a farm walk on the 18th July 2016 at his farm near Consett, Northumberland. Edwin showed his group the BASE-UK trial plot which is part direct drilled, part drilled into ploughing. A good discussion was had by Continue Reading