Sustainable Farming
"Our arable farm policy is purely based upon sustainable farming"
Our Contribution to Sustainable Agriculture
Wright's Agriculture are passionate about becoming involved with stewardship agreements. We have been involved with the implementation of many Mid-Tier schemes; wild bird mixture, pollen and nectar mixtures and wide margins form the majority of the cover area. This will improve the margin of land that we currently farm due to predominantly less productive areas being entered into the scheme. We are currently looking forward to watching these areas grow and seeing the environmental benefits.
Examples of implementation techniques.
Some techniques we use:
- Early adopter of min-till crop establishment
- 12m controlled traffic farming by 2020
- 20,000 Tonnes of organic manure applied annually
- Embracing environmental schemes and implementation
- Cover crops
Cover Catch Crops
We have also been involved with the Severn Trent Environmental Protection Scheme (STEPS). This has involved the drilling of Cover Crops for a 12 week period. The benefits of being part of this scheme is the improvement to local water health, soil health and nutrition and the enhancement to local biodiversity.