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Alan Simpson

Suffolk


Farm characteristics
Farm size: 3.6 hectares (9 acres)
Farm type: horticultural
Altitude: 50 m (164
Rainfall: 558 mm (22
Soil type/aspect: sandy stony over gravel and clay
Basic rotation: 7-year rotation, white clover, potatoes, alliums, roots, red clover, cabbage/lettuce, sweetcorn/squashes/courgettes
Enterprises: field and protected vegetable cropping (6 tunnels/glasshouses)
Prior land use: conventional horticulture
Weeding equipment: pedestrian rotovator, tractor mounted rotovator, spring tine harrows, home made A blade hoe, pasture topper, Aeromatic Barter self assembled flame weeder, hand held flame weeder. Ducth, Wolf and swan necked hoes, spades and forks
Business: converted all of the holding in 1987, 2 full time staff with 7 part time on land and helping with the box scheme
Marketing: all sold through a box scheme (up to 260 boxes a week)

Weed problems

Attitude to weeds


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