Upton Suffolk Farms

About

Upton Suffolk Farms grows high quality crops for well-respected customers. We embrace technology and look to implement it to increase quality, yields, improve the soil and the environment.

Potatoes

Salad potatoes, and Maris Piper, both grown for the prepack market

Onions

Only onion sets are grown due to the risk of fusarium all are grown for the prepack market.

3900t of short- and long-term storage, storage after the sets is hired out to an onion packer.

Maize & AD Rye

Grown for an onsite anaerobic digester producing gas for the national grid. The crop is harvested by a contractor.

Carrots, Equestrian & Pigs

Land let on agreements of varying length.

Sugar Beet

Our own production to supply British Sugar.

Cover Crops

Grown to increase the soil biology, improve crop nutrition and create wildlife habitats. These are generally grazed by a flying flock of sheep.

Various ELS, HLS and SFI schemes, and a large area of woodland.

Other projects

Solar Panels on roofs and field scale.

Wood chip boilers to heat various buildings supplied from our own woods.

AD plant to generate gas for the grid supplying 3,000 homes, we use all the liquid and solid by products on the farm to improve soil structure and reduce fertilizer requirements.