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A WIGGLESWORTH farm has struck gold after diversifying into pie pro
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duction. The farm shop is a rela
tively new venture for Hammerton Ilall farmer
Mr Simon Rushton. Mr Mark Duckworth
(28), a former pupil of St Augustine's RC High School, Billington, had
only been working at Ham merton Hall a few months before his involvement with pie production. A butcher since leaving
school, he had never baked before, but saw the market ing possibilities and
Mark’s golden pies Farm your way out of difficulties — that’s message to local dairymen
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entered his chicken and mushroom and steak and kidney hand-made pies in a British Meat competition, which was held a t York's racecourse.
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brating after gaining two gold awards for excellence. Mark supplies direct to
customers from the farm shop and also to public houses in Lancashire and Yorkshire. His pies are cur rently on the menu at vari ous hostelries in the Ribble Valley, including the High er Buck the Starkie Arms, Victoria Hotel and the Swan at Whalley.
Dairy feed costings boost
AF FEEDS, Britain's largest regional feed com pounder, is introducing a new costings service to its
dairy customers. New AF Dairy Facts has been designed to provide
farmers with clearer, more relevant information to assist in the monitoring, planning and decision making
for the dairy enterprise. The service, which has been widely welcomed,
includes clearer print-outs; trend analysis from colour graphs; close monitoring of milk from forage or grass; year-on-year rolling average comparison and an annual summary of 12 months costings.
German seminar trip offer
SPRECIIEN Sic Deutsch? If you do and you are a
rural landowner aged under 45, then you could be in demand. The Country Landown
ers' Association in Lan cashire and Cumbria has been asked to attend a sem inar organised by its Ger man counterpart for young landowners. The event is taking place
at Sachsen-Anhalt in the east of Germany on May 3rd. All the lectures, discus
sions and presentations are to be held in German, hence the need for fluency in that language. In addition to the language requirement, each guest has to pay his or her own travel and hotel costs. It is a a four-day event
and Mr Jolyon Dodgson, regional director for the CLA in the North West, said that the seminar pre sented a good opportunity to see how landownership was tackled on the Conti nent.
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"FARM your way out of the current difficult situation" - that was the emphatic message
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when the area's dairy farmers met at Gisburn. "Every farmer should
aim to produce as much as possible from the land a v a i la b le an d su p p le ment i t in the most bal anced and effective way," said independent forage c o n s u l ta n t Mr Alan Sayle. The meeting, held at the
Stirk House Hotel, was organised jointly by agri cultural contractors King Brothers, of Salterforth, and Alan Sayle Associates, based in Gisburn. Mr Peter King pointed
to the falling returns from milk production as the dri ving force for a different forage strategy. "Simply relying on grass
silage is not sufficient for today's high genetic merit high yielding cows," he said. "Farmers must have an
open mind to new crops, offering, when fed along side grass silage, the o p p o r tu n ity to achieve yields in excess of 5,000 litre s from home grown forage." He went on to urge
farmers to plan forage pro duction well in advance, in conjunction with the quota to be produced, also examining in detail every aspect of their farming policy which may inhibit the economic use of land. Mr Sayle graphically
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done since the early days of alternative forage crops. New maize varieties have been introduced; there are other crops, such as lupins, lucerne, peas and beans; and bi-cropping of barley and kale has now been tried successfully on sever
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