Articles (Farm Walks)

BASE-UK - FARM WALK BY KIND INVITATION FROM GUY LEONARD

Posted July, 29th, 2019

Guy Leonard kindly invited members to a farm walk on 16th May 2019 - here is his report...

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BASE-UK - RETURN TO AGROVISTA LAMPORT TRIAL SITE

Posted July, 29th, 2019

On Wednesday 3rd July 2019, our members were invited to visit the Lamport Trial site once again as a follow up to the trip in April

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BASE-UK MEMBER TRIP TO DENMARK 3RD AND 4TH JUNE 2019

Posted June, 10th, 2019

A small group of BASE-UK members took to road and air to travel to Denmark and Jock McFarlane, one of those intrepid "flying farmers" has written the following article

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BASE VISIT TO JOHN COOPER FARMS

Posted April, 16th, 2019

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

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FARM WALK BY KIND INVITATION FROM DOUG CHRISTIE

Posted March, 1st, 2019

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

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BASE-UK MEMBER'S TRIP TO FRANCE IN NOVEMBER 2018

Posted November, 30th, 2018

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

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FARM WALK HOSTED BY DAVID WHITE ON 1ST NOVEMBER 2018

Posted November, 5th, 2018

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

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FARM WALK HOSTED BY ANGUS GOWTHORPE

Posted July, 30th, 2018

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 was organised

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BASE UK TRIP TO SCOTLAND

Posted November, 16th, 2017

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

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FARM WALK REPORT - COURTESY OF SIMON PORTER AT PENN CROFT FARMS LTD, HAMPSHIRE.

Posted November, 5th, 2016

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

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