by Tom Fairfax | May 18, 2022 | environment, Farming, Regenerative Farming, Risk
I have a confession… over the last few years I have been going through a mid life crisis! (at least from a farming perspective). For some time, I have felt that things are out of balance and have been seeking to establish a new operational equilibrium at...
by Tom Fairfax | Feb 20, 2022 | environment, Farming, Opinion, Regenerative Farming, Uncategorized
The global media and policy focus on parts of the carbon cycle is masking a much more complex set of challenges in the global ecosystem that we need to address. Managing the carbon cycle is important, but if we are going to protect the planet, we need to take a...
by Tom Fairfax | Jan 22, 2022 | environment, Farming, Regenerative Farming, Uncategorized
Hurrah! The Johnes Blood Tests are back and the cattle have all tested negative. This is great news, Johnes can lie dormant and doesn’t appear till the cattle are quite mature. We do keep a “closed herd” meaning that we breed all our own...
by Tom Fairfax | Jan 16, 2022 | Farming, Regenerative Farming
Like most farms, whilst “the Christmas break” involves something of a change of rhythm, the main heartbeat continues as livestock need looking after and the place imposes its will on us. It is notice able that many “third parties” seem to go...
by Tom Fairfax | Dec 8, 2021 | Regenerative Farming, Uncategorized
Making Silage over Spring Wheat One of the challenges that we face at Mindrum is ensuring that we retain enough grazing for our stock to rest our permanent grassland during the winter. Now that we have entered organic conversion, we also have the...
by Tom Fairfax | Jul 20, 2021 | environment, Farming, Regenerative Farming
With the astonishing amount of technology increasingly available to farmers, whether chemical, biological, mechanical or doctrinal, it is easy to forget that we are never at liberty to make complete unilateral decisions. The ground with which we are privileged to work...
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