Cropping

The cropping rotation on the farm is crucial in matching a suitable crop and variety to the soil type of each field. The more productive silt soils can grow potatoes, vegetables, peas and sugar beet. With winter wheat and oil seed rape being more suited to the heavier clay soils.

Potatoes are grown in the same field no closer than every seven years to prevent the build up of potato cyst nemotodes. Likewise vining peas are also grown at seven year intervals to prevent the build up of fungal foot rot.

By referring to the previous cropping a planned forward cropping rotation is the first step in deciding what crop is grown in each field.

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