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Welcome to
Greenwood Farm!
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The 'Home'
for Duncan and Liz and their children Amy, Duncan,
John, and Agnes. Greenwood is a 500 acre farm set on
gently sloping land to the east of the A1.
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Breeding beef cattle
from a mixed herd of 120, mostly home-bred suckler
cows, including crossed Belgian Blues, Simmental,
Blondes and Limousins, which are bred to Limousin,
Blonde or Aberdeen Angus bulls.
Calving starts at the
end of April and continues through May and June each
year.
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The
calves are reared at home until November.
Then the
early calves are sent to the other farm in the group
at Sunwick, for the winter. The later calves follow
them up until January.
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In
Spring, they return to Greenwood and are turned out on
the grassland for the summer, returning to Sunwick the
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Many of
the fields at Greenwood are bounded by dykes -
dry-stone walls - with an electric fence wire on the
inside to deter the cattle from using them as a
massaging tool!
Sheltered
paddocks, close to home and bounded by woodland or
forestry, are grazed by the cows with young calves
while weaned stock graze the more distant fields.
The
finished fat stock are usually sold direct to
slaughter via the local markets/auctioneers.
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Modern
buildings provide winter accommodation when the cattle
are 'potale' fed.
'Potale'
is the residue from beer making, it is a syrup like
liquid and fed along with straw and silage.
Ad-lib potale is also available to them from an
innovative automatic dispenser created by Duncan!
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The
finished fat stock are usually sold direct to
slaughter via the local markets/auctioneers.
Modern
buildings provide winter accommodation when the cattle
are 'potale' fed.
This
year, Duncan is also growing approximately one hundred
and eighty acres of spring barley.
There is also about
fifteen acres forming a new plantation of mixed hard
and soft wood forestry.
If you
would like to contact Duncan and Liz you can e-mail
them if you click
here!
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Duncan
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So
- welcome to Greenwood Farm
and...
'haste ye back'!
Please
click on the
'Next Page' to see a slide show oft
the Greenwood Farm activities in 2009.
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John
and Duncan - 2009 |
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