Ballicherry Farm

09/12/2021

Ewes coming home from tupping holiday to Cromarty 🐑🐏 Now just 2.5 km of electric fence to take down 😭

20/11/2021

Farm Visit today from members of Bower YF from Caithness on their bus trip south 🥕 🚜

06/09/2021

Vetch, phacelia, buckwheat and sunflowers all full of bees, insects and small mammals in our carrot field margins 🌻 🐝

21/06/2021

Finishing harvesting the 2020 carrot crop on the longest day of 2021 after an epic 11 weeks of lifting between Nairn-Shire and the Black Isle for Huntapac Produce ltd. Thank you to everyone involved through the growing and harvesting season for their hard work 🚜 🥕

13/10/2020

Next door Auntie Dolly and her teenagers are enjoying some windfall apples ...

13/10/2020

Eleven piglets for Mrs Pig this afternoon Farrowed naturally in a big straw nest!

20/09/2020

Combining completed by Brian today under the watchful eye of grandchildren Donald and Ellie 🌾

04/09/2020

All hands on deck this week!

31/08/2020

All go this morning at Ballicherry 🚜🚜🚜

28/08/2020

Waiting on a sunny day 🌾🚜☀️

03/08/2020

Just a couple of our pork packs left to pre order. Please PM to order 😋

24/07/2020

🐷🥓FREE RANGE PORK PACKS 🌭🐷

Sick of supermarket pork? Order one of our free range Black Isle Pork boxes today.

Packs are £40 including delivery to Black Isle, Inverness or Dingwall and include:

1 x 1.5kg roasting joint
1 x 500g diced pork
1 x 500g mince
3 x loin steaks
500g pork belly slices
8 x pork sausages
8 x pork n Black pudding sausages

05/05/2020

Brian at the bed tiller today 🥕

29/04/2020

12 new arrivals at Ballicherry 🐷

28/04/2020

Lambing complete !

12/04/2020

Happy Easter! Stay safe folks!

19/03/2020

*** POST NOW FILLED ***
We are looking for someone to come work with us as a lambing assistant for a 2-3 week period starting around the 30th of March on our farm at Balblair on the Black Isle. The Irish student we were meant to have has been unable to travel over to us due to covid-19.

The role would including feeding sheep, mucking out lambing pens, moving sheep, helping with general daily lambing tasks. You must be physically fit and able to do manual work as this is can be a very physical job, no time for standing about on mobile phone. No experience necessary but would be beneficial. Practical lambing experience may be given to right person.

Working as part of a very small friendly team in the outdoors, so would be ideal for local person who's work has dried up due to the current world situation. Toilet and kitchen facilities on site but bring your own toilet roll...
Please private message us if genuinely interested. No time wasters please.

17/03/2020

Due to covid-19 situation we are asking reps/sales people/visitors of any kind etc to NOT drop into farm unannounced and to come in by appointment only.
Picture not ours - for attention purposes only.

12/03/2020

Due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) now being declared pandemic by the World Health Organisation we have decided not to hold any of our lambing days this year.
Our concerns are for the safety of the public and for ourselves if we are exposed to the virus by visitors at our busiest time of year, and how this would affect our ability to look after our ewes and lambs at the time they need us most. We hope everyone understands and we will see you back for lambing live in 2021!

16/01/2020

Be The Solution To Diffuse Pollution - Black Isle | Events helping farmers in Scotland | Farm Advisory Service

Event being held on Tuesday 21st January at 10.30am, starting at the Royal Hotel in Cromarty and then back to the farm at Ballicherry, run by SRUC together with SEPA. See link to book your space. Lunch included.
Please share.

How can you be the solution to diffuse pollution? Reducing diffuse pollution has many benefits to the farm business. These include improving the efficiency of applied fertilisers and organic manures,…

22/11/2019

Duroc x Gloucester old spot gilt weaners. Born September. Ready now.

12/10/2019

Our fresh free range Black Isle pork is now available! Sausages available in pork or pork n black pudding! Perfect for Sunday lunch! PM to arrange collection.

05/10/2019

Selection of GoS x Duroc weaners available - boars only left. Producing great shaped pigs. PM to book.

17/09/2019

Combining completed tonight for the team at Ballicherry!

14/09/2019

Harvest 2019 summed up in a photo!
Straps, weights and big boots required, rained off and a parked up 💦💦💦

05/09/2019

Duroc x GoS weaners for sale. Available in a few weeks. Boars and gilts. Please share.

27/08/2019

Some of our green manure crops which are part of the agri environment climate scheme. Bees loving it 🐝 🌸

15/08/2019

Siloking feed wagon with fully functioning weigher, right and left discharge
KV bedder
Unistock cattle crush
All for sale Dingwall Mart this Saturday 17th August

05/08/2019

Its been a busy weekend at Ballicherry with getting harvest started on Friday and 9 new arrivals last night 🐷 🚜

26/07/2019

Keith kicking off the baling season with oilseed r**e straw over looking the Cromarty Firth 🚜

18/07/2019

Sunshine and showers tonight at Ballicherry over looking our Zulu winter wheat🌾🌦

25/06/2019

Clipping sheep underway albeit delayed by yesterday’s deluge!

23/06/2019

Busy weekend at Ballicherry getting our first cut of silage done before tomorrows forecast rain 🌱🚜 ⛈

18/04/2019

Craig into last few fields of spring barley now 🚜🌾