Ley of the land

摘要

For Hampshire dairy farmer Clyde Jones, switching the whole of his grazing platform to herbal leys has become essential due to extreme weather.Describing Brixeys Farm Dairy near Ringwood, Hampshire, as "the wettest dry farm in the South", Mr Jones has experienced both flooding and drought, leaving a shortage of summer grazing and driving him to make changes to his 195ha grazing platform."We have to have 60 days of feed in the bunker to keep us covered for extreme weather."And even though we've got it, you still have to start an engineto feed it, increasing costs," says former Farmers Weekly Farmer Focus writer Mr Jones.