Aerial view of a tractor ploughing a chalk field beside a green crop and a hedge

Wiltshire · Est. 1931

51.3501° N · 1.9957° W

Four generations, one stretch of chalk downland.

Malting barley, feed wheat and grass-fed beef on 1,200 acres of Wiltshire downland, and a contracting team for baling, drilling and hedge-cutting across the county.

Tractor loader stacking round straw bales on a stubble field

This week on the farm

Wk 33

Stacking straw on Long Furlong

Harvest 2026

Spring barley

412 t

Winter wheat

1,080 t

Oilseed rape

236 t

In store · 14.5% moisture

  • Malting barley

  • Feed wheat

  • Oilseed rape

  • Hereford beef

  • Hay & straw

  • Contract baling

  • Hedge-cutting

  • Grass seed

  • Malting barley

  • Feed wheat

  • Oilseed rape

  • Hereford beef

  • Hay & straw

  • Contract baling

  • Hedge-cutting

  • Grass seed

The farming year

What we’re doing, month by month

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Now

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Drilling

Drilling

Spraying

Spraying

Harvest

Harvest

Calving

Calving

Haymaking

Haymaking

Contracting

One team, every corner of the county.

Our own machines and the people who run them, booked by the hour, the acre or the bale. We work for thirty-eight farms between Devizes and Andover.

Contract baling

Jun – Sept

from £14 / bale

Hedge-cutting

Sept – Feb

from £52 / hr

Drilling

Sept – Oct · Mar – Apr

from £38 / acre

Crop spraying

Mar – Jun · Oct

from £12 / acre

Combining

Jul – Sept

from £95 / acre

Combine harvester cutting ripe wheat

This season

2,140 bales · 38 farms

We’ve farmed this chalk since 1931, and we mean to hand it on in better heart than we found it.

— The Hale family

26

km

Hedgerow we keep

1,200

Acres of chalk downland

4

Generations

38

Farms we contract for

Visits

Come and walk the farm with us.

Guided farm walks on the first Saturday of each month, April to October: hedges, margins, cattle and whatever is in the ground.

School visits for Key Stages 1 and 2, with a trailer ride and a look at the calves in spring.

Next open day

Open farm Sunday

7 Jun 2027

10am–4pm

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Free, no booking

Next open day

Open farm Sunday

7 Jun 2027

10am–4pm

·

Free, no booking

Next open day

Open farm Sunday

7 Jun 2027

10am–4pm

·

Free, no booking

Questions

Things people ask us.

Beef boxes, bales, contracting and visits. If yours isn’t here, the farm office will know.

Visit

Furrow Farm, Long Lane, Upavon, Wiltshire AB1 2CD

Farm office Mon–Fri 7am–5pm, Sat 8am–12pm. Yard collections by appointment.

Newsletter

Field notes from the farm, four times a year.

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