Farm Diary

The silage clamp was completed as Glebdales the contractors filled it with maize silage last Friday, and they finished just before the rain arrived on Saturday afternoon.

The bulk of the maize is now in, and the remaining crop will not be ready for another fortnight or so. By the time you read this the work on cow cubicles for this coming winter will be done, with only some minor maintenance to the feed troughs to do.

We still need to finish the work on the feed bunkers, and we still have plenty of other work to do, but it will be more relaxed from now on.

We will transport 70 of the bulling heifers from Tillington to their winter quarters this week, and it won't be long before the weaned calves over there will be allowed to run out in the yard.

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette October 8