As George Brown pens his final NMR / RADBF Gold Cup column of the year, he reflects on what the past 12 months have brought to Bisterne Farms, and looks at the year ahead. The final one! I will thinly mask my celebration, as writing these columns has been both a blessing and a curse. […]
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It’s been an upbeat, positive start to 2025 at Bisterne Farms, with excellent fodder beet yields fuelling the cows. Farm Manager George Brown looks at what lies ahead now. As we turn into the New Year, I’ve started 2025 feeling upbeat, as the grazing fodder beet is the best I’ve ever seen it. We have […]
The autumn cycle of inseminating cows, grazing youngstock and drying off the spring calvers is starting to wind down at Bisterne Farms. That’s allowed the team to celebrate recent awards and look forward to Christmas, as Charlotte Lawder explains. It’s been a busy few weeks here on the farm, and, as the year wraps up, […]
Oliver Mears, Dairy Manager at Bisterne Farms, reflects on finishing harvest and preparing for winter as the wet weather continues to cause a range of disruptions. It’s been a busy time of year as we bridge the gap between finishing off harvest and getting set for winter. We managed to get all the maize cut […]
October is a good time for some reflection at Bisterne Farms – Manager George Brown is weighing up what’s gone well, and what might benefit from tweaking in the year ahead. As we head into autumn, in a lot of ways things are looking positive on the farm; and where it hasn’t quite gone to […]
It’s been a busy month for the team at Bisterne Farms, with autumn calving in full flow, silage-making, straw baling, and a new baby to contend with. George Brown reports. New life abounds on the farm at the moment. The cows were officially due to start calving on August 12 and by August 20 we’d […]
In this month’s NMR / RABDF Gold Cup column, farm worker Oli Mears is taking over the reins, with the task being shared around the whole team. So what role does he play in the Bisterne team and what is the farm focusing on this month? Having never written an article for a magazine before, […]
Charlotte Lawder joined the Bisterne Farms team six months ago, having briefly returned home to Shropshire after working in Western Australia on a 1000-cow arm. In this month’s column she mulls on the changing weather and Open Farm Sunday. What a difference a month makes! In May I had a catch up with my old […]
George Brown, contract farmer at Bisterne Farms, Ringwood, Hampshire, pens his first column for British Dairying following the team’s RABDF / NMR Gold Cup win and open day. My first article in British Dairying magazine. Where to begin? The past three months have been something of a blur. Have you ever started off on a […]
This year the NMR / RABDF Gold Cup Open Day will see Bisterne Farms showcasing how its low-input, grass-based, crossbred herd took the win, highlighting how the team’s focus and performance led to victory. So what can visitors expect from the day? Bisterne Farms first invested in dairy several years ago, when in the process […]