After the morning's milking

Having collected the newspapers and bought some potatoes from the village shop, I drove up the High Street and just caught the tail end of B driving his dairy herd up through the village into the field at the top. He is one of the survivors having increased his number of dairy cows to about 250 which is now considered small!

T was feeling sorry for himself this morning with a strained back so he had a rest and felt much better by the end of the day. He and N went into the vets this afternoon to discuss our Farm Health Plan which we must submit to the FABL Farm Assurance inspector along with so many other things if we want to remain in the scheme. It can be difficult to trade if we are not a member of one of these quality control bodies.

Today we have had little rain but blustery gales. Our silage making is very behind because of the rain which means we have little grazing for our animals. They need to move to different pastures but are unable to do so until we have cut the grass and cleared the silage fields. Fortunately we have some winter feed we can give them to supplement their diet.