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. What a relief to be able to send all the milk again. We endedup not sending any at all during the last four days of March. It's a little galling to read what the Spanish and Italians have done and their reward of more quota. The recent Milk Marque magazine came up with some interesting figures (see table 1). We took the opportunity to have another load of concrete laid outside the dairy. We ended up laying it in the snow and because of the weather it was a bit slow curing. When the tanker returned, we had to route him in a slightly different way so that he onlycrossed a bit of the new concrete. Luckily it did not harm it.