Ascott Farmland
Ascott Farm comprises 3,500 acres of farmland in the rolling hills of the Aylesbury Vale. The farmland is predominantly arable, growing a mixture of winter and spring cereal crops and field beans, with several acres of grass and parkland.
What We Grow
Ascott Farm produces several thousand tonnes of wheat each year. The milling wheat is used as an ingredient for the production of bread, and the remaining wheat crop is sold into the animal feed market.
Field beans are exported for human consumption or animal feed. In addition to these crops, a proportion of straw is sold from the farm. Hay is produced on a smaller scale to feed the horses kept on the Estate.
The farm is spread across three locations with the capacity to store over 5,000 tonnes of grain, crop inputs and machinery. The farm employs a contractor, Mentmore Park Farms, to undertake the day-to-day operations across the arable farmland.
History of the Farm
The original farm was bought by Leopold de Rothschild in 1889. Until the late 1990’s the farm’s main enterprise was the Eranda dairy herd. The herd, in excess of 200 Holstein cows, was split between two farm locations, Home Farm and Lower Wingbury Farm.
Initially, the arable crops were grown to support the dairy units, providing animal feed and straw for bedding, however, crop production has become the primary activity on the farm, and there is no longer a dairy herd at Ascott.
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