Due to a disagreement with neighbouring farming family company, over who owns 4-acre of land that I've been on for over 27 years and that is only accessible by me from the 7 acres I rent off a different landowner, his answer to me applying to Land Registry to change the register, when I found out that they had registered it in his name in 2013 and didn't declare I'd been there all that time (they only realised it had originally been owned by his family, when they registered all their surrounding land in 2013), was to plough it up at end of May this year by dropping my electric fence, driving over my grazing and loosing my horses into a different field!
As they didn't consult the boundary plan, they also ploughed up over an acre of land I rent off the Council.
I got a contractor in to power harrow it thinking it would grow grass but it's just grown weeds!
The farmer is being forced by the legal dept of the Council, to reinstate the grazing I rent off them.
The farmer's solicitor says a contractor is due tomorrow and apparently are going to power harrow until a suitable seed bed is established and then a seed drill will be used.
But surely, this will not kill off the weeds?
Also, where the land has lain so long without grass and we have quite a drop down to a river side, it's washed a lot of soil off and some of it looks like a pebble beach! Will the power harrow bury those stones and bring soil to the surface? Surely the power harrow cant do the job of a stone burier?
Also, do you roll before seeding or after and if after, how long after seeding?
The Council aren't farmers and I know very little about cultivating land as only grazed my acres and took hay so I need info to go back to this farming company and say actually, what you're planning won't return my lovely green rolling field to as good as it was before.
Any advise from you 'seasoned' farmers would be appreciated
Regards, Rose