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Our local cattle market is at Market Drayton, about half an hour's drive west, it's usually store cattle that I sell there, having a suckler herd, I run them on to just short of two years old and sell them to finishers. I buy no corn (barley or...
Almost a quarter of our farm is on a peat bog, at one time each of the farms in the village had a proportion of this peat ground, splitting and fragmenting the farms. In the last forty years as farms became vacant with retirements the estate amalgamated...
We took delivery of a brand new Vicon Acrobat spider wheel hay turner come rowing up tool fifty years ago this month. It was an amazing machine at the time with no driving parts or gears, just turned by dragging the four wheels along the ground at an...
A sad end to a good old cow who had produced a calf every year of her productive life. Every now and then you loose a cow, and in my life time in farming three such cases will stick in my mind forever, one of which died a few days ago. The very earliest...
I went down fields counting cattle, and through the ford every day, Always it got wet from the brook, started rotting the chassis away. I bought my first land rover I bought second hand some forty odd years ago, it was a light green diesel rag top, the...
I read the Farmers Weekly, ov read it all me life, Read it in the good times, and read it through the strife, In its words and pictures, brings us all the news, Tells us of our leaders, n' tells us of their views. This farm could double its output...
So all in all you reap what you sow, you cannot keep robbing the producer, in this case the cow. It started when I joined a Milk Marketing Board scheme called ‘Low Cost Production’. November 1962. Much to my disgust I seemed to always be in the lower...
But only when we are trying to round them up, all the rest of the time out grazing with the other cows she is quite normal. If there is more than one person in the field she becomes aware she starts to get alerted, and if by chance we start to drive the...
Well to be honest it did rain yesterday, a reet heavy down pour for a few minuets most of which ran off. Up to now we haven't had a Drop (rain) Me cows are out on grass, and the pastures burning up, The brook is running low, soon be nothing left to...
We left the calves with them for most of the winter only weaning them in mid February, by this time it had pulled the mothers down, so almost all of the herd now looks "poor" or should I say slim. Well its that time of year again and the suckler...
To catch them by the chin and ear, back them in the crate, Kicking, jumping, bellowing, mother cow's rattling at the gate. From mid June we started feeding corn in a creep feeder for the suckler calves, it takes quite a while for them to start to...
We have only just passed the fortieth day of St Swithin's, it did rain on the 15 th July and true to its legend or saying, it has rained more days than its been fine. The grass has grown continuously right through the summer and given us very little...
It was said by the old men that the water should "trot" onto the fields, and "gallop" off. On our low lying meadows there is still evidence of the very old style of management the "bedwork or floated water meadows" , where...
Moles It's that time of year again when the moles start digging and pushing up soil in their inimitable way. Nearly always on the best bit of lawn, following in the hedge bottom then branching out under the grass in the most unpredictable directions...