The Farmers Mart Jun-Jul 2018 - Issue 57 | Page 45

SOUTHWOLD FARM 45 • JUN/JUL 2018 72778 - C S Fenton Chartered Accountant - 8TH.pdf 1 11/06/2018 12:10:00 C M C S Fenton & Co Chartered Accountant Y CM MY CY Family Run For Over 25 Years Proud to be chartered accountants for Tim and Caroline Wardle CMY K VAT  Book-keeping  Payroll  Company Secreterial services  Ltd Company Accounts. Year end accounts for Sole Traders & Partnerships  Self Assessment tax returns Contact: Tel: [phone] Address: The Old Rectory, Email: [email protected] Kirby Underdale, York, YO41 1QY Do you have the space & care to rear or finish cattle? www.csfenton.co.uk www.buit.ie heard about it our daughter Kelly was look- ing to work on the farm and it enabled us to have enough work for her too. Caroline, Kelly and I all work together.’ ‘When the calves come in they are on milk starting at two litres fed twice a day. That goes up to four, five and then six litres before we start knocking the intake down again. They are also fed wheat and barley in nuts and are all on straw. We’re looking at the possibility of putting up other sheds to increase our volume as Buitelaar is look- ing to grow its business because Morrisons want to treble supply. They’re also looking for others to fatten them to no more than a year old and 420 kilos. We are happy with them as small calves. They may require a little more work when they are young, but it is manageable.’ ‘Our pigs come in at 40 kilos in batches of 400 and are taken through to bacon going in to Malton Bacon Factory. We had sows of our own years ago but came out of breeding pigs in 2001, which is when we went B&B. We’ve had calves on and off over the years before the Buitelaar contract.’ ‘The sheep are a mix of Swaledale and Scottish Blackface ewes put to either a Texel X Charollais tup or a Swaledale X Texel. We buy a few Swaledales every now and again at Fadmoor Annual Sheep Sale. Our lambing time is from 10 April for three weeks and our fat lambs go to market in January weighing 44-46 kilos.’ The arable land at South Wold is largely heavy clay with flint and chalk that can get a bit lighter. ‘It’s not as good Wolds land as you will find in somewhere like Foxholes. We’re just over 900ft here but we do grow good crops. Our current winter wheat variety is Gator which should average around 3.5 tonnes per acre and better in a good year. We produce malting barley growing Concerto and we grow 35 acres of potatoes that go to Wolds Produce of Pocklington. We grow a lot of seed potatoes for them too. Caroline is one of their truck drivers.’ Caroline’s family the Dickinsons were farmers. Tim’s parents Dennis and Anne came to South Wold in 1967 from another tenanted Halifax Estates farm at Painsthor- pe. They now live in Bugthorpe. ‘I joined them on the farm when I was 16 and I’ve worked here ever since. We’ve kept it quite similar really and our future expan- sion is more likely to come through what we do with the calves and Buitelaar than anything else.’ Kelly had reasonable success at show jumping and competed at BSJ level travel- ling all over the UK. The family still have a horse, but they are also into horsepower motorcycle and truck wise as you can see pictured here. All three have great mo- torcycles and they enjoy attending truck shows and live music – notably it must be said in regularly coming to see the Chris Berry Band!