A Year Farming With Deere Part 1

DVD PAL

This two-part DVD series follows a year
with contract farming operation Reed
Agriculture. Based in North Suffolk,
the business covers 3000 acres and uses
almost exclusively John Deere
machinery. Interviews and narration
describe more than 100 sequences over
the course of the two programmes.
Particular emphasis is placed on
showing the impressive array of modern
equipment used, with nearly 60 machines
featured over both discs, including
more than 40 tractors with examples
from most of the popular John Deere
ranges produced during the past 10
years.

The soil types are very variable,
ranging from light sand to heavy clay,
and consequently a wide variety of
crops are grown including wheat,
barley, oilseed rape, sugar beet, peas,
grass, parsley, onions and potatoes.

The first of two DVDs, covers the
period January to May, beginning with
the harvesting of the remainder of last
year’s sugar beet. A variety of
cultivations on the light land are
followed by the drilling of spring sown
crops. Preparations for onion sets and
potatoes are shown in detail, together
with the planting operation. Crop care
is next, with spraying, fertilising and
irrigation the order of the day.

Suffolk-based Chris Lockwood is a
freelance agricultural journalist,
author of three books and creator of a
growing list of programmes on farming
and farm machinery.

• Running time 100 mins
• PAL DVD