"Tony Williams" wrote in message
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In article ,
Tim Lamb wrote:

Ah! This is droughted Hertfordshire. Baled up on the one cloudy
day of the week. The moisture meter says it is fit to store but
I have doubts. There is rather a lot of sap in grass this early
in the year and they are temporarily field stacked to ward off
the rain.

Same here in Herefordshire. The local dairy farmer
is cutting..... he cuts in the morning, turns in the
afternoon, baled and away the next day, fertiliser
the day after that..... then sheep if he can find
anyone daft enough to be trying to make a living
that way. [1]

He doesn't have a continuous connection through all
his fields, and I think he finds it easier to keep
his cows near and transport green fodder into them.

Bet the cows don't agree with him on that :-)


[1] I wouldn't like to try and make a living off
the land these days.

You have to have a real job and treat farming as a sideline.


[1b] The soft fruit farmers around here are managing
to beat the weather (and early imports) with acres
of polythene tunnels. Good luck to them... but
the bloody Incomer Yuppies have still formed an
AntiPolythene Eyesore Action Group.

Somebody should shoot them ! They'll be moaning about the lambs bleating
next.