Ian Semple's Gallery

A very clean farm yard with lots of gratings,diverters etc to separate the "clean" water from the "dirty" water

Semple's farm was visited later in the year....10th Oct.2005

A note from Ian Semple:-

"When you visited our farm recently several farmers in your group requested details on volumes of waste production to be handled on the farm...

Slurry Production

Dirty Water Production...... This is a major concern!

Silo 1(37* 13.6*0.55m) = 276m3

Silo 2 (28*10.6*0.55m) = 163m3

Yard behind Dairy Unit = 423m3

TOTAL =862M3/! 89.000 Gallons per year

I ask this question can I keep this yard clean so this means that I don't have to store this large amount of water of the yard.
It's important to keep this OUT of the slurry tanks.

Galvanised wash bay gratings with 2-way water diverters are used to solve this problem"

 

Rex Humphrey's Gallery

As with all focus farms visits we were made most welcome when we visited this organic farm on 14th June 2006

The Homestead	James the farm manager	Among the cows	The 16 point parlour
Organic Beef	Rex gives us a lesson on clover varieties	In a field of triticale	A field of wheat
Rex farms 1500 acres	A field 10 days after cutting for silage	Dining in the Rafters Restaurant	He milks just over 320 cows