• A look back on 2022 – including our oilseed rape insecticide-free trial
    An opportunity to reflect on the last year at RSPB Hope Farm, by Georgie Bray, Hope Farm Manager. Winter is well settled in now on the farm, although it has been a long time coming. The scorching 40...
  • Hope Farm Yields: crops and birds
    August is really the end of the farming year as the final crops are harvested, here at least, and also marks the end of the breeding season. So it seems a good time to do a round-up of how our harvest...
  • A difficult cropping year at Hope Farm
    The weather dictates everything in farming whether you are an arable or livestock farmer. For us as an arable farm cultivations, spraying operations and harvesting are all at the mercy of the weather...
  • An update on the Hope Farm cover crop and compost trial
    Guest blog by Georgie Bray, Hope Farm Manager Soil is the foundation that helps us to grow crops on the farm and look after so many of the species sitting at the base of the food chain in farmland ecosystems...
  • A new GM crop in Europe - the first of many?
    Remember when anything to do with Genetically Modified food (aka GM) guaranteed front page newspaper coverage? It seems those days are well and truly past. Last week the EU approved GM " Maize 1507 "...