Glebe farm

Question 1

HUMAN

Answer 1

Farmers do most of the work hired workers are used at busy times grants and subsidise from EU to grow less sweet in to set aside 15% of the land to plant trees farmers put in drains to deal with surplus water in low lying land at bottom of slope

Question 2

PROCESS

Answer 2

January- prep service machinery pack store potatoes
March- sowing sow sugar beets and potatoes fertilised cereals and spring grown crops
May- spray herbicides ETC
June- harvesting mow set aside to keep weed clear
July- harvest potatoes and fruit prepare cereal for harvest
August- cereal harvest
September- sugar beet harvest then plough land into October
December rest and tidy up

Question 3

PHYSICAL

Answer 3

Size 127 hectares
relief low lying land with gently southerly slope machinery can be used water drains downhill to a wet area that is less than 10 metres above sea level
climate rain all year needed for summer and winter crops most of the year’s temperature is above 6°
soil sandy soils that drain well and warm up easily very suitable for cereal crops such as wheat lack nutrients farmers spray fertiliser

Question 4

SOIL

Answer 4

Sandy soils that drain well and warm up easily suitable for cereal crops such as wheat lacking nutrients farmers have to spray’s fertiliser

Question 5

CLIMATE

Answer 5

Most of the years temperature is above 6°

Question 6

MACHINERY

Answer 6

Farmer owns 2 tractors are plough and a cedral the farmer hires a combine harvester in late summer

Question 7

CHEMICALS

Answer 7

Fertilisers needed such as insecticides pesticides which are used on cereals and sprouts

Question 8

LOCATION

Answer 8

By the village of east kill in Lincolnshire

Question 9

LAND USE

Answer 9

Arable crops
mainly wheat
commercial- profit
intensive high yield power hector