Chris Appleton

Best day of the year! Rather fitting that turnout day is the first day of Spring, enjoy ladies! #grasstomilk #firstdayofspring #TeamDairy

@TimGue1 Also Sussex today! Probably should have taken a photo in some slightly better crop though 🙄

Sussex Today , mad year

@KeithGue @BarneyTremaine Blessing and a curse hey!

@Appleton_Dairy @BarneyTremaine Humble brag.

Fortune favours the brave hey… #maize25

@KeithGue @BarneyTremaine Obviously because we had 6 remaining headland passes to finish the field we were on, it has rained enough to stop play here 🤦🏻‍♂️

@BarneyTremaine @Appleton_Dairy It was wet and warm when I left. Felt like we might have had more than 2mm but there weren’t any puddles on the roads…

@BarneyTremaine Looks awesome. I’d really like to do some into the green like that but we tend to spread fym or slurry on everything if we can so need to spray off first. I have soil envy… we have a bit like that but the rotovator is more one size fits all.

@Appleton_Dairy Happy enough.. we are just doing the one pass, but it’s taking some pulling in places this year. Glad we have had some rain over night. Pretty dry in places. This is grazed cover crop regrowth. I like the idea of doing in one operation though.

@BarneyTremaine Straight in. We have a strip cultivator that we will use in one or two tighter fields, and have a couple that are still down for the full works. 325 acres going in, 250 should be one pass as we stand although with the job its doing perhaps more 🤷🏻‍♂️. Hope yours is going well today

@Appleton_Dairy Nice, are you doing much pre rotovation or straight in?

@KeithGue Fingers crossed it blows your way!

@Appleton_Dairy Excellent.

@BarneyTremaine Strip rotovator. This is the first year we have tied it all up as a one pass machine. Early days but pleased with the job so far

@Appleton_Dairy We are doing some tomorrow, that strip tiller on your drill Chris or powerharrow?

@HefinR Cold weather ain’t a thing down here 😂😂

@Appleton_Dairy You’re virtually in France!🇫🇷 Go for it! 😂

@PhilNash2 That’s my thinking. Certainly the earliest start we have ever managed, let’s hope it pays on this block and we can get it turned around at the other end promptly!

@Appleton_Dairy About right I reckon Chris, milder nights this week and generally soil temps are 9-10 Got to start somewhere!

@anthonybecvar Now that it’s public it’s bound to crash and burn 😂

@Appleton_Dairy Go for it. Good luck.

@KeithGue We have about 15mm forecast for Tuesday then on and off for the week

@Appleton_Dairy Rain?

@KeithGue Would be fair to say I’m slightly relying on this rain bring a bit of warmer weather with it! And I’m curious so thought I’d nibble a bit off, we shall see

@Appleton_Dairy Looks good bud but there was a frost on my car this morning here!

Not a bad morning to be out and about yesterday, shame today isn’t the same! ☔️

@IssyAnstey The crux of the issue explained far better than I could! I don’t disagree that we should pay our fair share of tax, I just feel that the line has been put in the wrong place!

@anthonybecvar New milking parlour. It’s been a long time in the planning, nice to see things really kicking into gear

@Appleton_Dairy Exciting! What’s going up?

Good things starting to happen on the building site!

@fordcows Good luck!

Six hours into main herd TB test jab day 🫠

@JAMESHASTINGSM1 Either a good working partnership or he is extremely tolerant 😂😂. Either way very happy to have him

@Appleton_Dairy A rarity unfortunately these days but must be a good working partnership 👍

We celebrated 25 years on the farm with Paul this morning. This man has been doing early morning feeding and scraping almost as long as I’ve been alive, before going to do a days work. A true inspiration to us all and a bloody good bloke. They don’t make them like that anymore!