Slightly different farming day for us yesterday, helping evacuate children and teachers from
#EarlSoham
primary school and getting parents to and from
@FramCollege
prep school from the flooding caused by
#StormBabet
If anyone needs any help from a tractor, please contact us.
Thank you
@tnstractors
for the delivery of 4 new
@Fendt_UKIreland
tractors, if you can now supply some ☀️ we can put them to good use on the fields! 🥔🧅🥕🌾
Winter Barley yields looking super strong 💪🏽 today under the super Suffolk sun ☀️ Now what is that famous saying…if the moisture is right….?! 🚜🌾🧑🌾 (Full disclosure: they will catch up on any missed 💤 throughout the day tommorow!)
#Westrope
#harvest
#combining
#winterbarley
Thought these were some of the best carrots we have tasted in a while, went to check the pack and boom hello
@fleming_duncan
, well done team WFL! What a lovely surprise 🥕 🥕 🥕
Lovely morning to harvesting this crop of Maris Peer. They left the field at 9 were on a lorry at 9:30 and will be on your supermarket shelves by tomorrow morning!
#suffolkspuds
Following some fantastic help so far we are looking for more drivers ASAP to assist with the remainder of harvest, work will run through until end of September/Early October. Potential for full time work for the right candidates - get in touch - Duncan
@westrope
.co.uk
We are looking for some additional help with our spring work campaign. Various roles available to suit experience. Operating a 6155R within our highly skilled team. Potential for full time work available. Competitive rates of pay. Please email CV to office
@westrope
.co.uk🥕🧅🥔
Good to start the 3rd harvest of the year in the daylight. This will be the shortest of them all. The viners will be onto the next farm by the morning. Well done all. Hope you all have a safe season.
@PeaManAndy
@fleming_duncan
@tomwestrope
What a difference a year makes.
2022 - finished harvest 17th August
July 0mm
August 0mm
2023 - Harvest still on going 🥱🥱🥱
July 110mm - 10 yr average 50mm
August 100mm - 10yr average 41mm
August - 16 dry days in the month
🫧🧽 Mud be gone! 🫧🧽 Harvested, washed and in the lorry on there way to our customers in just 30 minutes…now that’s what we call being efficient 🥔🥔🥔
#westrope
#westropefarmingltd
#potatoes
We have made a start with the
#2020harvest
of
#suffolkpeer
🥔 look out for it in all the supermarkets at the start of June
#itwontbelate
. It was going so nicely yesterday and this morning until 6mm of rain (and still falling) led to us stopping play for today.
We were delighted to have a visit from Farmer Tom from
@WestropeFarming
today as part of
@SuffolkShow
Tractors into Schools. We were shown around his
@JohnDeere
tractor and found out about the amount of different foods that can be grown in a single meter squared.
For harvest 2021 we are growing:
350ha of Potatoes 🥔
200ha of Onions 🧅
12ha of Echalion (Banana Shallots)
50ha of Carrots 🥕
12ha of Parsnips
1,600ha of Cereals 🌾
350ha of Sugar Beet
250ha of AD Maize 4/5
Last few runs with the ridgers before they are put away for the season. It feels like a long season already! 🌦🌦⛈🌧⛈🌦🌦 but a great effort from all the chaps in a tricky year... catch up
@aliwhatling
haha 🙈👍👍
Thank you Hannah from
@nfum
for our annual Health and Safety talk ahead of Harvest 🌾 Thankfully our brilliant team are well rehearsed at keeping themselves & each other safe at work👷🏽 but it’s always great to have an annual recap ✅
#healthandsafety
#westrope
#westropefarmingltd
@farmerThomo
No wonder sea levels are rising that’s over 40,000t falling to the sea floor. It’s not global warming it’s just the Archimedes principle! 🎣
@RWWraight
@jamin4284
@3musketeersltd
Well you all have valid entries, but I’m afraid to say you will have to fight it out for 2nd place as it’s obvious that Mango is the winner!🎉🎊👑🎊🎉
Absolutely disgusting and now it’s our responsibility, money and time to clear it all up. How is that fair? We are busy growing the culprits food!!
#Flytipping
@SuffolkPolice
@BaberghDistrict