It’s been a brilliant year for maize! With so much rain, our growers have seen fantastic yields and enormous tonnage coming off their farms. Here is a roundup of our favourite moments.
A big thank you to our amazing team who worked day and night to finish before the worst of the rains came! If you are interested in learning more about growing for Apsley Farms, you can read more here
You can contact our team on: 01264 353172
Our farming methods
Precision farming vastly improves the efficiency of farming a field, and ensures that the crop is as profitable as possible. We use satellite controlled (RTK) systems on our vehicles which allow us to control the steering. By using this technology, we can match each field pass to the previous one with accuracy of 1-2cm, therefore reducing the number of passes required by 30% during crop establishment. Other technologies used include headland turning and implement automation, which reduce operator fatigue and operational mistakes during repetitive tasks.
In addition, the technology we use allows boundary and field mapping of all our farmed fields. During the harvest the yield data is recorded, analysed and stored. The data can then be applied to map future farming operations to ensure that every area of a field is achieving a profitable outcome. This includes soil improvers and manufactured fertilisers to ensure that they are distributed effectively, giving the required amount for plant uptake and, therefore, reducing waste.
Read more about our sustainable farming practices here
About Apsley Farms
Sustainability and efficiency is at the heart of everything we do at Apsley Farms. We’ve adopted cutting edge technologies and turned low value crops into renewable energy. We focus on a circular economy by returning the nutrients in our digestate products back to the land as a fertiliser.
Our process of generating green gas and other important by-products ticks three important boxes: it displaces natural gas (fossil fuel) in the gas grid to heat people’s homes; it displaces CO2 made by the fertiliser industry, which is essential in the food industry; and it simultaneously generates natural fertiliser in the process!