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Rachel Young

Field Margin Contributor

Latest articles from Rachel Young

First year of growing fodder beet has resulted in soggy shaws and reduced palatability

Rachel Young Joys of soggy shaws, extra triplets and a two-legged wee one for Rachel Young
The winter of 2023/2024 has been characterized by relentless rain, floods, and challenging weather conditions at Ballicherry Farm.

Horrendous wet weather has meant Rachel and her father Brian have only just finished straw bedding carrots

Rachel Young Fields margins: Wet weather heartache at Ballincherry for Rachel Young
Strawing down carrots at our farm has been a formidable task in this challenging season.

Rachel and her father, Brian have not been able to get straw down on carrots due to the incessant wet weather

Field Margins: Excessive rainfall causes chaos for Rachel Young
It has been awful seeing people’s forage swept away, livestock stranded and homes, yards, and fields completely flooded

Rachel Young has completed the harvest but baling is still going on Ref:RH240418023

Field Margins Reduced N pays dividends for farm margins, Rachel Young
Ballicherry's 2023 harvest season has come to a close, marking the completion of another successful year of combining efforts.

Rachel Young has had a busy month speaning lambs, shearing a single sheep and roguing

Rachel Young Joys of roguing and weaning for Field Margins' Rachel Young
July Weather Update: Thunder, Lightning, and Heavy Rain Provide Much-Needed Relief for Grass Growth, Ewe Clipping Proves Challenging.

Rachel Young Ref:RH240418018

Rachel Young Black Isle early drilled barley completely fried at Ballicherry
At Ballicherry, a much-needed rainfall of 7mm finally arrived after a prolonged period of dry weather.

Rachel Young Spring has sprung for field margin, Rachel Young, as things are busy on the farm
The last few weeks have flown by as we prepared for lambing and tried to get on with ploughing albeit the extremely wet ground conditions made things difficult.

Rachel Young Field Margins: Spring work is fast approaching for Rachel Young
The days are stretching, which is very welcoming, but so to is our workload with lambing and sowing rapidly approaching.

Field Margin: Rachel Young utilises crop on farm to improve flock
The month of January has gone in quickly for once I feel, with longer days letting us get stuck in with jobs that we had put aside in December due to everyone having the cold/flu.

Rachel Young Ref:RH240418018

Rachel Young Wishing farmers well for the New Year
December at Ballicherry has mainly been spent cutting gorse bushes, putting up electric fences and shifting ewes onto cover crops, along with a couple of draws of fat lambs and the removal of the tups.