COWMEN COMMENT FROM YORKSHIRE

摘要

David farms 183ha in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park with the help of his son Matthew. They run a 160-strong herd of pedigree Holstein Friesians, some of which are naturally polled. Atrip down to the Southwest last week showed how fortunate wehave been to have had some rain during June, even if it meant that it delayed first cut silage until June 16. We ended up with a different contractor as our usual one was still so far behind. He was telling me that he had bought a self-propelled foragerthis year and was going to run two outfits and he had not taken on much more work. He starts cutting further down the coast on some early land and he was expecting to have a few days between some of his jobs, but he had not reckoned on the weather! He said that on some farms they were taking out nearly as many tanker loads of effluent out as they were bringing trailer loads of grass!