Gerry Minister
Case Studies on Weed Management
Gerry Minister
Kent
Farm characteristics
Farm size: 393 hectares (970 acres)
Farm type: mixed (cereal/veg)
Altitude: 50 m (164
Rainfall: 533 mm (21
Soil type/aspect: soil North Downs chalk, clay and flints mainly grade III, fields sloping
Basic rotation: is 3 years grass/white clover/trefoil ley, cereal, beans or peas or red clover, cereal, cereal, grass/clover ley not undersown
Enterprises: main enterprises arable crops; cereals, beans, peas, red clover for seed. Beef suckler herd 100 suckler, rear progeny from within and take through to finished animals. 350 cattle in total. Composting unit on site taking Kerbside collected green waste processing 4500t/year. 80 ha (200 ac) of permanent grassland
Prior land use: was intensive arable land
Weeding equipment: have a 12m Hans Bitchler harrow comb, a brushweeder, and inter-row hoe a Lillingston rotary cultivater, tines on a tool bar a Garett Brakes (three claw tines used in potatoes) and a rear mounted mulching topper
Business: employs one farm manager and wife, 3 full time staff and 5/6 part time
Marketing: vegetable box delivery scheme so 50/60 vegetable crops and potatoes (9 ha, 23 ac in total). Beef goes either direct to customer, wholesale to butchers or to Sainsbury
Weed problems
Attitude to weeds
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