Bowsden West Farm

Farm Facts

Bowsden West Farm
Berwick on Tweed
350 Hectares
Soils: varible, from sandy
to quite heavy clay loam
Rotation: Industrial rape
set-aside, oilseed rape, 2 x winter (milling) wheat, 1 - 2 barley crops, tempory ley (suckler herd, and 300 breeding ewes).

"If anybody had told me two years ago that I would have the entire farm running on a full integrated computer package, I would never have believed them. My experience with computers was non existent." Philip Wilson
	"I feed information into the handheld throughout the day, at moments such as when I am waiting for the sprayer to fill up. Then it is simply a matter of putting the handheld into its docking station to download into the PC."
Farm Works ability to drill down through the costs is changing the way Bowsden West is farmed: "We discovered that later sown wheat's were also by far the most expensive, the best crops were the earliest sown. It has emphasised the importance of timely sowing ."
	Fertiliser savings - "The poorer soils on our outlying land are extremely variable, and need patch treatment, Our fertiliser bill has fallen dramatically. Blanket treatment was wasting a lot of fertiliser."
Sections of text and photos with kind permission of: FARMERS GUARDIAN