Hay making
25 June 2010 - 10:09am | morganpell
Summer is really hotting up!!
The old saying of "make hay while the sun shines" is of course very true for a livestock farm. The machinery and drivers have been flat this week and hopefully next mowing, turning and rowing up the dried grass the baling and carting the bales. Whenever machinery is used and getting older breakdowns occur and we have had a few to contend with, nothing to major thankfully. The new investments of a tractor and round baler have been a delight to use and have improved productivity as we had hoped. The only down side is that yields of grass are generally well down which may cause a problem next winter. The key thing is NOT to panic as nature has a wonderful knack of balancing herself out.