More ploughing/begin calving

Weaning spring born calves/routine feeding cattle/sheep

Possibly still harvesting grain crops!/baling and carting straw/storing & uplifting of grain/lifting tatties. 100 lambs have been sold, all achieving good prices and grades although the prices are not as good as last year.

Harvesting grain crops/ sorting out ewes/selecting fat lambs/beef animals for sale. Has been a very busy “back end” as it is known. Have sold all the grain for good prices but there were big drying costs due to it coming off the combine quite damp, we expected nothing else after such an appalling summer. Not a partiularly impressive yield. It has sold as cattle feed to BOCM in Penrith. Very low on straw, not a good year, so we have had to buy in some but at least we don’t have to buy any silage.