Sorry, we have had to cancel this event and hope to reschedule at a later date.
Details: Following an introduction to the business, there will be a walking tour of the farmyard incorporating the cheese making section, farm workshop, anaerobic digester, and dairy herd. We would then adjourn to our meeting room for cheese tasting, tea and coffee, questions and discussion.
Bio Security JF Temple & Sons is a working farm. Visit requirements are:
- Stout footwear suitable for walking round a dairy farm; and,
- Footwear must be clean, especially of any livestock manures; and,
- Do not attend if you are travelling from a restricted or quarantined area.
JF Temple & Sons
J F Temple & Son Ltd farm approximately 230 hectares of land in and around Wighton. The main enterprise is dairy, with approximately 130 cows, and a similar number of young stock. The dairy herd is almost pure pedigree Brown Swiss.
About a third of the milk is used for cheesemaking, the rest sold wholesale to Arla. Arable crops are barley (for seed and feeding cows), maize and beet for cows and digester, and beans and lucerne for cow feed. They are using strip tillage for maize to reduce energy use and improve soil conservation.
J F Temple & Son are currently using methane from their biogas plant for generating up to 170 kW of electricity for the grid and their own use, heating for grain drying, cheesemaking, dairy hot water, farm house and office and three nearby farm cottages. The biogas is produced from cattle manure, whey from cheese, fodder beet and maize silage. They export to the grid as electricity more than twice the amount of energy they buy as diesel fuel.
Recent environmental improvement projects have included a moved to zero till crop establishment and investigating acidification of digestate to reduce ammonia emissions.
Please let David Seccombe 07766 206208 know if you would like to attend
FREE Event
ALL WELCOME
This technical meeting counts as 2 hours of CPD