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Mixed family farm breeding pedigree Hereford Cattle. Placing an emphasis on conservation & regenerative Ag. Tweets by Billy - 2022 Mixed Soil Farmer of the Year

Dilwyn, Herefordshire

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Boycefield Herefords

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9 months

Are you based in Herefordshire and interested in your land being sustainably farmed? Get in touch! We’re keen to work with land owners/farmers on a contract or share farming basis. We can offer help designing an SFI scheme that will work alongside a non extractive food

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3 years

Devastating day unexpectedly loosing our sheepdog Fly far before her time. Thank you for your service girl, chasing the sheep in the clouds now.🤍🖤

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2 years

@GeorgeMonbiot Oh dear George, not a good look. You’re alienating folk who are far better placed to sort the biodiversity crisis than the likes of yourself, the people with the boots on the ground, people like us doing the real work. Come visit our ‘Trashed Land’. You might learn a thing or two

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4 months

@Uberseehandel Cider apples are picked by machines. The trees were still yielding. They’re not wanted as they’re a very bitter tasting variety, peoples taste in cider has moved on over the past ten years and they’re after sweeter flavours. Hence these cider trees are no longer required.

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1 year

Grass is in top gear now! Permanent pastures untouched - No fertiliser, pesticides, lime or mechanical intervention. Hereford cattle thriving in their natural environment!

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4 months

@FergusHenderso1 The orchard is a firm favourite for Fieldfares, so they will be pleased with plenty of unharvested fruit to pick from the ground overwinter!

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3 months

Silage harvest 2024 complete! 700 bales, all of which should be decent stuff. It’s actually turned out to be a vintage summer for silage making, which is quite refreshing. Just 100 bales of hay to try and make now!

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11 months

Just caught up with the @Channel4 documentary by @AdeAdepitan which has been the cause of much controversy over the weekend. Laughable and childish from the first minute, very poor journalism (if you could even call it that), with channel 4 allowing the spread of blatant

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5 years

What a scene to walk out the front door to this morning! #Herefordshire

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11 months

They don’t want livestock farming. They don’t want arable farming. This video literally shows best practice arable farming… What do they actually want to eat? 🤦‍♂️ Are they just seriously misunderstood?

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11 months

All the insects and other life, gone in an instant. No wonder nature is crashing. #ecocide

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3 years

Google Earth has recently been updated and has captured incredible aerial images of some of our rotational grazing paddocks from last summer. 🌎

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That’s what 40mm of rain in an hour will do. Feed shed flooded, grass seeds planted last week on the most part ruined, countless other things washed away. Government needs to wake up and smell the coffee, the incentive isn’t there for producing food at the moment.

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4 years

Here come the grass hoovers! #Sheep365

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2 years

I’ve bought a few sets of Gallagher Tumble Wheels ready for when the cattle are turned out. They’re going to be a massive time saver and will allow us to move the cattle daily! Check out how they work in the YouTube video linked below, very clever things!

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27 days

The wheat that has just been cut from this field had zero herbicides. This has allowed a really nice understory of clover to grow. I knew there was some there, but it’s not until the crop is off you get a true idea of how much. The original plan was to plant a cover crop ahead of

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3 years

Our clover living mulch experiment has had the chop today. Extremely pleased with the results. We’ve ended up with a great coverage of clover and the wheat yield looks to be knocking on the door of 10t/ha! 100kg of granular N + 6kg foliar applied N. #RegenerativeAgriculture

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5 months

First tumble wheel move of the year! 🛞 🐮

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10 months

Most stressful morning of the year successfully navigated. TB Free for another 12 months! #HappyCows #BoycefieldHerefords

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2 years

Started the first batch of 2023 compost this week. We’ll have around 600 tonnes to do this year. Cattle manure, Apple waste & Wood chip are the main ingredients in this batch. I’ve done a proper explanation in the YouTube vid linked below!💩♻️🪱

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1 year

Just sold a load of wheat out of the shed (admittedly wet, 16.5%) that we have no room to store. For a price of £165. Making some of the SFI options look impossible to ignore. No point in growing vast quantities of a product that’s not in demand. Strange times.

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3 years

Our home bred replacement ewe lambs making a start in some of our cover crops today. 🌿☘️🌸🐑🐝🪱 #RegenerativeAgriculture

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3 years

Cows out today!

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6 months

It really shouldn’t be the case with mid April now bounding down on us but the lambs that are yet to go outside are doing quite well with a roof over their heads. We currently have eight pens set up to keep as many in as possible. It’s causing a considerable amount of extra work

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3 years

Composted FYM getting spread at 12m into winter oats here today. Field is in its 4th year zero-till so the tractor and spreader are barely leaving a mark.

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1 year

Drilled 11th August into Wheat stubble, I’m sure the neighbours think we’re mad but it’s once again been worth every penny! Mustard, Buckwheat, Phacelia, Sunflower & Fenugreek. Different rooting architectures feeding and conditioning the soil along with N fixing from the

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1 year

Drive 7 miles to roll the last field of herbal ley, unfold rolls, heavens open, fold rolls back up, drive home, drop rolls off, go to pub. #SummerOf2023

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1 year

Breakfast is served!

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1 year

Grubs up. Featuring the bull trying to be lazy. Feeling very autumnal! 🍂

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2 years

‘If Grasslands are to be rich and diverse they have to be grazed’ (David Attenborough, 2023). #WildIsles We’re seeing an explosion of diversity return to our pastures due to carefully managed mob grazing. Grazing ruminants are a vital component within the British landscape.

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26 days

Brought the cows and calves back inside for a few days whilst we wait for this weather to pass. They’re not complaining!

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1 year

This morning - Two month catch crops protecting our soil from the heavy rain, preventing erosion & nutrient leaching. This afternoon - Lapping up the sunshine, capturing carbon and feeding the soil biology with some juicy exudates!

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9 years

Thanks to some walkers we've just spent the past hour trying to get this lot out of a wheat field #CloseTheBloodyGate http://t.co/YqPTkRqMj1

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1 month

Diverse catch crop growing between agroforestry rows in a field surrounded by 10ft high hedges. Ready for wheat to be direct drilled into it in a couple of weeks time. Looking after our little corner of the world in the best ways we can!🌳🌾

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2 years

Super Sunday on the compost turner! Second time through these windrows.

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3 years

The first of the cattle made their way out to grass earlier today!

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1 month

The latest we’ve ever cut winter wheat that’s for sure, but thankful to finally be making some progress.

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2 months

Wipers on, combine parked up. Due to crops being slow to ripen we’ve only cut 25 acres of wheat so far. Chanced it and had a go this morning, two laps of the field and the rain came. Never known a year as testing.

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9 years

On the Moooooooove... 🐮 http://t.co/oOkHfGCgso

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2 years

Spreading composted FYM onto some winter wheats today. Spreading to 24 metres nicely which is allowing us to stick to the tramlines. Tractor and spreader hardly even making mark. These compost applications as well as grazing livestock providing all of our P&K needs!🐑🐄💩🌾

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1 year

Huge numbers of Swallows & House Martins having a pitstop for a rest & some hunting on our farm before their long journey south! They obviously quite like our farmed environment. Roughly 1000 birds darting about above the cow pastures! @RingersWm @FarmWildlifeUK @Farmland_Nature

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2 years

That fresh grass feeling!

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2 years

Wheat blend going into clover living mulches today 🌾☘️🤞

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2 years

The soil building team working away in the December sun. Reducing the biomass of the cover crop nicely whilst barely leaving a mark on the soil, treading plenty of plant matter into ground. Leaving an even distribution of dung across the field due to cell grazing. #BuildingSoil

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2 years

Clear herd TB test today. Always the best early Christmas present!🐮

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1 year

That’s the winter Oats all accounted for - A yield of 7.49T/ha. Direct drilled, Grown without any fungicide or herbicides using 60kg/ha Granular + 20kg/ha Foliar N. Good result.

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1 year

Not bad for the 8th of October!

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3 years

Boycefield Pinky making it look easy this morning! #WorkingPedigreeCattle #BoycefieldHerefords #Calving2022

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2 years

Direct drilling a GS4 herbal ley into a summer cover crop today, gone in an absolute treat! The pass of the drill and Cambridge roll should be enough to knock the cover crop back adequately to let the herbal ley grow away from it!

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2 years

Certainly not panicking about any early N applications in our clover living mulch wheats. Thanks to the mild weather the clover has actively started fixing nitrogen already - Indicated by red/purple coloured nodules. Awesome to see!

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16 days

All autumn born calves housed full time now, no chance of them getting back outside. The start of what could be a very long winter.

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19 days

All of the tools are out of the box this year! Three fields of winter oats going in. Late harvest, meaning a limited chance to get a good volunteer chit and soil that took an absolute battering last winter means agronomically and economically ploughing this block is the best

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1 month

What was a lovely drying morning was quickly ruined at lunch time, again... There goes any plans to try and cut any more wheat for a while. If you go outside now you can see your breath it’s that cold! What a stinker of a summer we’re having.

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1 year

Made a start with drilling today. Wheat going into lovely conditions. #Harvest2024 @Weaving_Mach 🌾

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3 years

Rhizosphere goals

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3 years

Clover understory seriously waking up now, should be a completely green field once the combine has been through! The plan is then for lambs to mob graze it for a month, after this compost will be spread before direct drilling winter oats! #RegenerativeAgriculture

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11 months

Want a food system that improves the soil, supports nature recovery, sequesters tons of carbon and combats climate change? Ruminant livestock, diverse living roots and ditching the chemicals. Not a huge amount more to it! #WorldSoilDay2023

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3 years

This week we’ve made a start to this years hedge laying effort. We’re aiming to lay 650m of hedge over the course of the winter, equating to just less than 4% of current hedgerows on our farm! As well as this we have over 300m of completely new hedge to get planted before spring!

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2 years

Moved the ewe lambs to the next field of cover crop today. 35 days grazing for 60 lambs off the first 5ha field all whilst leaving a proper residual behind shown in the tweet below. Allocated 0.3ha cells every 48 hours. Serious soil health benefits & the lambs are flying!🪱🐑💥

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1 year

A month ago I would’ve never thought this crop was going to turn out like this with the lack of rain, but here we are, ready for some sheep tomorrow! Getting diversity & livestock into our arable rotation whilst taking pressure off our permanent pastures allowing for longer rest!

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1 year

Racing the rain. Good mates are worth their weight in gold!

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5 months

Zero insecticides, herbicides, fungicides or PGRs used on this field of Extase. Inputs so far are an application of slug pellets back in the autumn, 130kg/ha N and a few micronutrients.

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4 months

That fresh grass feeling! 🐮

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2 years

Cattle started the second round of grazing in this field today. A 40 day rest period since the last grazing has allowed for an explosion of diversity. Permanent pasture that’s teeming with pollinators, sequestering carbon and producing great tasting, regeneratively produced beef!

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2 years

Awesome day at Groundswell today. Over the moon to be awarded Mixed Soil farmer of the year 2022!

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2 years

The results are in! 🏆 Our 2022 Soil Farmer of the Year Winners are… Billy Lewis - Mixed Farmer of the Year David Miller - Arable Farmer of the Year Andrew Rees - Runner-up Soil Farmer of the Year Huge thanks to our sponsors @CotswoldSeeds @Hutchinsons_Ag #Groundswell22 #SFoTY

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12 days

Typhoon winter wheat going in today! Direct into crimped summer cover crops.🌾

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6 months

After a fairly good run of about six months without any dead sheep it was a nasty shock to go out this morning and find three dead all in the same field. Hypomagnesaemia the cause as a result of this awful cold weather. A change of field off the herbal ley onto some slower

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5 months

Cow chow! ☘️🐮

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2 years

Untrimmed hedge ➡️ Grass & wild flower margin ➡️ Two year winter bird seed & pollinator mix ➡️ Skylarks, Yellow Hammers, bumblebees and butterflies. 🌳🐝🐦🦋🌻 That’s farming with nature!

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1 year

Managed a smash and grab job on the Tardis winter barley yesterday, with a big effort from all involved. There was a bit of shower dodging but we got it all off between 14.5-16%. Yields look good, will know for sure and tweet an update next week once it’s been over a weighbridge.

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23 days

What a relief! The sprayer fits like a glove between the agroforestry rows. Love it when a plan comes together. Next stop direct drill wheat (when it dries up)!

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10 months

Zero till Wheat, following Beans in a clover living mulch. Investing in the soil paying dividends in these fields. Compost ➡️ Diverse overwinter cover crop, grazed by lambs ➡️ Spring Beans ➡️ Clover broadcast into Beans ➡️ Direct drilled Wheat. No seed dressing, no tillage.

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2 months

There’s nothing like a herbal ley for finishing lambs!

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6 months

Peas in a pod 🫛

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3 months

Lovely to see a swarm of bees on the move earlier. The cattle weren’t remotely interested! 🐝

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