FARMS on Bredon Hill and the North Cotswolds figure among the major award winners in the Gloucestershire Root, Fruit and Grain Society mid-term results.

Overbury Farms, where Jake Freestone is the farm manager, which takes in a large chunk of Bredon Hill, has won the farm championship runner-up in the large farms competition, the sheep award and the best oilseed rape crop in the Cotswold region.

The Springhill Estate at Seven Wells, Moreton, run by farm manager Ros Allen, took the livestock championship, was third in the sheep competition, second in the beef competition and showed the best crop of oats in the Cotswold region.

R & J Baldwyn, of Hidcote Boyce, Chipping Campden, was runner-up in the small farm competition, fourth in the farm championship, fourth in the arable championship and winner of both the wheat and barley competitions in the Cotswold region.

R T & Mrs A G Baldwyn, of Hidcote Boyce, claimed a second place in the profitable barley competition and another second for the best managed grassland.

Farm championship judges Tom Bradley and John Clarke said of Overbury Farms: "A very slick operation, run at a very high standard, a super effort by all involved."

Mr Bradley also judged the livestock championship and was most impressed by the level of stockmanship of all the competitors.

s Overbury Farms owner Penelope Blossom and farm manager Jake Freestone with farmworkers Graham Matty, Andrew Stanford, Derek Stanford, Tim Stanford, Todd Phillips and Gordon Stanford, winners of this year's Gloucestershire Root, Fruit and Grain Society competition. aug06104