Archive Article: 2001/03/23
John Glover
John Glover milks 140 cows
on his 52ha (130-acre)
county council holding near
Lutterworth, Leics. The
business is run in partnership
with neighbouring tenant
Mark Wilks, with dry cows
and youngstock kept at Mr
Wilks 32ha (80-acre) farm
access to harvest the maize.
Recent strong winds also brought down several large willows along the side of the brook. Clearing these should keep us busy for a couple of days before we start top dressing silage ground.
Turnout should not be too far away and gives us something to look forward to. Fortunately, cows dont worry about things like we do but keep on churning milk out, our 4000-litre tank is now looking too small – we shall have to change it before autumn.
So we have plenty to do to keep our mind off the current situation and by the time this is published, hopefully, things will have started to ease. *
John Glover is taking all possible precautions to keep foot-and -mouth out, meanwhile cows continue milking undeterred.