Yard to Rent.

We currently have between 9-12 stables to rent on our beautiful event yard in an excellent central location.

This self-contained yard within an American barn, has it’s own heated office, tack room and rug room, and a feed room. There is also a wash bay with hot and cold water. All stables have rubber mats and water drinkers.

There is shared use of a 60 x 40 outdoor arena and a 5 bay horse walker. Ample grazing, separate summer and winter turn out and extensive off road hacking around the Estate.

For any enquires please contact Binnie Rank: 07966489929 or email us by using the contact form below or equestrian@kemblefarms.co.uk

A warm welcome to the Cotswolds

BIG Stalls and LITTLE Stalls are two beautiful holiday cottages outside Kemble in Gloucestershire and near to the Wiltshire border.

The traditional Cotswold stone cattle stalls were converted to luxurious holiday accomodation in 2007 and are set in the fields of the Kemble Farms dairy and arable estate located around the official source of the River Thames. Both cottages have views over fields in every direction while inside you are surrounded by comfort, convenience and sophisticated interior design.

Kemble has a station with direct trains from London Paddington. While the village is home to a gastro pub and a well stocked village shop. Cirencester and the Cotswold Water Parks are less than 10 minutes away.

Arable Introduction

Exciting new venture for 2012

Kemble Farms have made significant investment to keep our farm moving forward by investing in its own Forage Harvesting equipment, including a new Self Propelled forage harvester and associated equipment to carry out all of our own forage operations to supply feed to both our Dairy herd and both the Kemble and another local A.D plant.

These are very exciting times for us which we are very much looking forward to. We are also looking forward to working closely with a selected number of local farmers who will be joining our team.

Cropping in 2012

Kemble

• Winter Wheat 328 Ha
• Winter Oilseed Rape 146 Ha
• Winter Barley 52 Ha
• Forage / Energy Maize 192 Ha
• Lucerne 50 Ha
• Grass Leys 70 Ha
• Permanent Pasture 115 Ha
• E.L.S. and Habitat 14 Ha

Contract Farm One

• Winter Wheat 102 Ha
• Winter Oilseed Rape 82 Ha
• Spring Barley 95 Ha
• H.L.S. conservation areas

Contract Farm Two

• Winter Wheat 55Ha
• Winter Oilseed Rape 71Ha
• Spring Barley 57 Ha
• H.L.S conservation areas

Contract Spraying

• Farm One 250ha
• Farm Two 200 ha
• Contract Cultivations 600ha

KFE welcomes back Nicky Roncoroni.

Kemble Farms Equestrian is very pleased to welcome back event rider, Nicky Roncoroni ( www.nbreventing.com ), our initial tenant here at KFE.

Nicky has moved south again from the Scottish Borders to continue running her successful business of producing top class event horses from a slightly more central location. We wish her all the best for the forthcoming season.

Greater capacity creates cost saving opportunities

We have made significant investments over the last 2 years to increase our field operation capacity.

Cultivation, drilling, spraying, fertiliser spreading and harvesting equipment have all been upgraded to give us much greater capacity in these field operations. All operations are RTK GPS controlled from our base station at Kemble, which has a range of up to 25 miles. This enables us to complete all tasks with optimum timing and accuracy with time to spare.

This results in an efficient operation keeping the cost of each pass to a minimum.

We are therefore in a position to offer an efficient, cost effective service to arable businesses in the locality, which are looking to reduce the cost of their field operations. Contact us here for more information.

Permission sought for new housing at Top Farm

As you may be aware, we have now submitted a planning application for the development of land at Top Farm. This will comprise a mix of 43 houses and 34 extra care units. Extra care is a type of affordable retirement housing with a minimal level of care or assistance for residents. It will enable elderly residents to down-size and remain in the village whilst the new housing provides a mix for younger people and families.

The Farm has a long established relationship with the village and local people, which we value. It is extremely important to us that the final scheme responded to the wants and needs of local people as best it could. However, the scheme has also had to satisfy officers at Cotswold District Council in terms of the layout and connectivity with the existing village.

We have worked with the design team to achieve a development that we feel will be consistent with the character of the village. The development will reflect the traditional style of the buildings in the village and maintain views out across the countryside, as we know these issues are important to existing residents.

The layout will see a new area of public open space and footpaths on the western boundary whilst West Lane will be aligned to provide a safer access to the A429. The new junction is also designed to deter rat-running along West Lane.

We believe there is a genuine need for new housing in our village. The proposal has the opportunity to improve our village with traffic calming on the Malmesbury Road, a new classroom for the primary school and affordable housing for Kemble residents. The proposal will see the relocation of our existing operations at Top Farm to Smerrill Dairy.

We hope you will support our proposal. The application number is 11/04236/OUT. If you have any queries please no not hesitate to contact us via Conor or Chloë at Hunter Page Planning on 01242 230066

Sharing our experience with Countryfile

We were asked to share some of our dairy farming experience with the BBC’s Countryfile recently.

Kemble Farms appear on the BBC's Countryfile

Top Farm Housing Proposal

This week sees the public stage of consultation about our proposal to develop Top Farm. We have already consulted various groups such as the Parish Council, the Village Hall and the School to get an understanding of their views about the scheme. Now it is the turn of the rest of the village. There will be an opportunity this week to view and comment on the plans on Wednesday afternoon (2pm -7pm) and on Saturday morning (10am -2pm). We are also listening to people’s views on what new facilities might be provided to benefit the village as part of this development.

I have lived here in Kemble with my family for over 35 years and it is my home. So I am very keen that any new development makes Kemble a more attractive place to live in and this will be the abiding theme of the new development. At the same time as making the new development as attractive as we can, we need to take account of the needs of all who live here and aspire to live here. To this end the new development will aim to provide opportunities for people who want to live and work from home as well as those who want to live here and work elsewhere.

The village enjoys an exceptional level of features and public support through the many organisations that work hard to make this a great place to live and the farm has always worked closely and supportively with the village to promote village life.

From the provision of the Village Hall, the Playing Field and the Village Shop to the establishment of new footpaths for walkers, each generation of the farm has taken an active part in village life.

However there have been times when our much loved amenities have been at risk and I can remember when the School was under threat of closure as was the shop and the pub to name a few. It was the development at West Hay that helped turn the fortunes of the village around at that time supplying much needed new pupils for the School and business for the pub and the shop as well as new members for the Church.

Today we are facing an uncertain future and I hope that as well as complimenting our heritage the new development will, with the support of the community, breathe valuable new life into this thriving community that makes Kemble such an outstanding success.

Colin Rank
Chairman

Cropping for 2011

Kemble

• Winter Wheat 326Ha
• Winter Oilseed Rape 159Ha
• Spring Barley 52Ha
• Forage / Energy Maize 184Ha
• Game Crops 10Ha
• Grass Leys 70Ha
• Permanent Pasture 140Ha

Contract Farm ‘One’

• Winter Wheat 100Ha
• Winter Oilseed Rape 98Ha
• Spring Barley 81Ha

Contract Farm ‘Two’

• Winter Wheat 52Ha
• Winter Oilseed Rape 58Ha
• Spring Barley 70Ha