News

27th Jan 2011

Herefordshire farmer wins lengthy wrangle over polytunnel planning approval

A Ross-on-Wye fruit farm which grows millions of strawberries every year has had a High Court judgement, against its use of polytunnels, overturned following a lengthy legal battle.

Following yesterday’s Court of Appeal decision, EC Drummond & Son, in the Wye Valley, has now established its right to use the polythene structures at the business which is in an area of outstanding natural beauty, AONB.

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Summer 2011

Every summer, Morrisons are supplied with in-season, plump and juicy raspberries from dedicated farmers like Ben Drummond and his family.

Picked within an hour of first light on Homme Farm, Ben’s raspberries are then cooled very quickly to maintain their fantastically fresh flavour.

“We’ve been working with Morrisons for six or seven years and we find them very open and straightforward to deal with. We speak around once a day during harvesting.”
- Ben, Homme Farm

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9th July 2010

Amazing Spitfire maze is made out of maize!

A MAIZE maze is set to be a top school holiday attraction after it was created by the owners of a farm shop.

E.C Drummond and Son planted the giant six-acre maze using sweetcorn crops with a design including the shape of a Second World War Spitfire fighter plane.

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23rd July 2009

Herefordshire family farm dubbed one of the very best

FARMING at Homme Farm at Walford, near Ross-on-Wye, is big business – and also one of the best.

Proof came at the Royal Show when the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) recognised owners, the Drummond family, as “outstanding farmers”.

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17th July 2003

A diversity of crops tests skill of judges

THE main field and livestock competitions have been judged for the Harewood End Agricultural Society. And over two days the judges covered a large number of farms across a wide area of South Herefordshire and West Gloucestershire.

The diversity of crops and enterprises provided a real test for them and the quality of the entries was as high as ever.

E.C Drummond won: Best managed farm, over 900 acres

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