BUCKLE FARMS LIMITED

ABOUT BUCKLE FARMS LIMITED

Welcome to the Buckle Farms website

Buckle Farms ltd was established in 2011, it is the operational arm of the Buckle Family and carries out arable and grass contracting services over an area in excess of 2000ha from South Holderness all the way up to Filey, North Yorkshire. The company employs a highly skilled arable team which is supplemented at busy times of the year by additional temporary help. The company’s latest enterprise which started in March 2016 is haulage for bulk materials – Wheat, Barley, Oilseed Rape, Soya and also hauls finished bacon pigs to the local abattoir at Preston, near Hull.

and growing beef cattle, the business now has a large pig herd and also owns land in the Holderness area. Winter Wheat, Winter Barley, Oilseed Rape, Vining Peas and Spring Beans are grown across the fertile soil.

In excess of 28,000 finished bacon pigs are sold per year from 1000 sow breeding herd. All the feed for the pigs is made by ourselves and uses all our home grown Wheat and Barley. The pig enterprise has a team of 8 people led by Simon Craig the manager. All the slurry is analysed and applied to our land via a dribble bar to provide the soil with valuable nutrients and fertiliser.

A 500kw EWT wind turbine was erected in 2012 to produce renewable energy for the farm, it has been producing over 2,000,000kw per year ever since. The electric powers the farm and any excess is sold into the grid. We also added 100kw of solar panels in late 2015 to help produce the energy we need, especially on sunny summer days when the wind doesn’t blow as much!