Farming
Farming News – September 2023
I am feeling my age. In my head I am still 22 but when I set off to run after a sheep or a cow, I feel more like 90.
Read MoreFarming News – August 2023
If the weather dries up in the coming month, then that will be perfect. Almost all of the first crop of grass has been made into hay because it was drying out so fast in the sunshine that I just left it for hay.
Read MoreFarming News – July 2023
I write this on the day after Scruton Fest. When I returned home, I checked the sheep because I had a nagging feeling that something was wrong.
Read MoreFarming News – June 2023
May has been a month where the crops have grown fast because of the combination of warm weather and sufficient moisture in the ground.
Read MoreFarming News – May 2023
I always look forward to May, a month of promise of warm summer days. An easy month when the cattle and sheep are outdoors, eating the spring grass, after the winter when they needed feeding twice a day, bedding up every second day, and mucking out every six weeks.
Read MoreFarming News – April 2023
The dry February has become a wet March. I like to sow spring barley during the first two weeks of March but rain and snow prevented this.
Read MoreFarming News – March 2023
Well, we’re over the bleakest months of the year. I can’t say that the coldest part is yet over because recent years have brought a cold east wind during March and April.
Read MoreFarming News – February 2023
Last Autumn I responded to a Facebook advert which was requesting Leeds based artists.
Read MoreFarming News – January 2023
As we leave the old year behind, I keep seeing online posts about what a horrible year 2022 was, but I think that in the next decade we may look back with nostalgia and accept that it wasn’t so bad after all.
Read MoreFarming News – December 2022
I can take things a little easier this month. Apart from bagging and selling potatoes, I can catch up with jobs around the farm.
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