Silage time

Another good crop of silage is under wraps, what lovely weather we had. Every one is very pleased. Time now to sort the sheep it is the time of the year for the ewes to be put with the rams, if we hope to lamb at the beging of December, as well as a herd of dairy cows we also run a flock of pedigree charollais sheep.

Update on the farm

Well here I am in blog land thanks to my tutor Tom. The weather here in Cornwall is lovely hence the men of the farm have silage fever, what is that I hear you say? well it is a disease that farmers get when they don't know whether to cut silage or not. We have heard every forecast going, thankfully the decision has been made we are cutting today, and the contractor will be with us tomorrow to pick it all up, and another pit full of winter feed for the cows will be safely in. I joke about them not knowing what to do, but the weather is all important, as the better the silage then hopefully the milk production will be good in the Winter, and we will need to buy less concentrate feed for the cows, and this helps the cost of production.
Grand children to pick up from school, and cooking to be done ready for tomorrow.