Worth Farms director Simon Day looks ahead to Spring on the farm in Holbeach Marsh

In this week's Word on the Ground, Simon Day explains how Worth Farms have coped with the dry winter.

Its been a quiet period on the farm overwinter and also a very dry one.

We have luckily managed to fill up our water storage reservoirs but this was only made possible due to the fact we recycle and capture all of the water from our main packing site, if we were only relying on the abstracted water from the dyke we would be less than half full.

This is due to the lack of rainfall we have seen over the period, its been much drier and colder than the average.

One of the upsides to this is that the soils have had some frost in them which will allow us to make seedbeds in the spring much easier and with less passes of the cultivators, the cover corps we have grown to protect the soils overwinter are all now dying back and will be leaving the soils in great condition for planting the spring crops.

We have made some good progress with getting the first split of fertiliser onto the winter wheat and mustard crops, we are also out spreading the digestate, the organic fertiliser that comes from the anaerobic digester on site.

The team have also been busy getting the machinery serviced in preparation for the spring work, cutting eth hedges around the farm and also putting out digger to good use and cleaning out the drainage ditches to help keep the water flowing, when it does arrive..

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