Steve Peacock
Archers agricultural advisor
Blog posts in total 9
Posts
Tony’s new cattle
The implications of Tony's surprise purchase.
Neospora – another blow for Ed Grundy
The latest trouble to affect Grange Farm
TB tests at Bridge Farm
All you wanted to know about this threat to dairy farmers
Rain = late harvest = cuts + re-recording
Never mind the barn burning down or strife among the Horrobins ... what about the real crisis in Ambridge? The winter barley isn't ripe and the fields are waterlogged. Like most of the arable farmers in the country, the good folk of Ambridge have been in varying states of despair about th...
Vaccinating badgers against TB
Ed Grundy is learning how to vaccinate badgers against TB. Steve Peacock explains why. As early shifts go, this wasn't bad. Four o'clock on an August morning saw me driving from Birmingham to a village in the Cotswolds, to join a group from Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust as they set out to i...
NVZs and the slurry lagoon
David and Ruth Archer can curse their bad luck in finding that badgers have damaged their slurry pit (or 'lagoon'). But they are by no means the only farmers having to fork out substantial sums in order to comply with the Government's latest Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) regulations. A year...
Brookfield and direct milk contracts
Ruth is keen to improve hard-pressed Brookfield's milk contract arrangements. The Archers agricultural advisor Steve Peacock explains the background - and why the supposed holy grail of a direct contract might have its drawbacks. Beef has done well for David and Ruth Archer this year. So ha...
Super dairies
As Debbie brings proposals for a dairy unit housing 1000 cows or more, Archers agricultural advisor Steve Peacock looks at the emergence of the 'super dairy'. In the white heat of the 1960s, when Dan was in charge at Brookfield and Phil challenging for top dog status, you could sell food by ...
The new agricultural story advisor
Sharp-eared listeners may have noticed a new name mentioned in the credits for The Archers. Our long-serving agricultural guru, Graham Harvey, has returned to the writing team and handed over the ceremonial thumb stick* to Steve Peacock, former editor of BBC Radio 4's Farming Today. We asked Ste...
