Pedigree Beef Shorthorn with plenty beef. Starting to grow now we have some nice weather. This little chap has got some swag. 🥩🐮🤠

Fashionably late or just bloody late?! 40 acre in the ground today, same again tomorrow and we will be done. Hopefully better late than never.

Finally got a start drilling 2.

Rained off at 5, well not rain, monsoon.

Try again tomorrow and the next day and the next day…. 😕

Soon forgot all about his tonsillitis when then Woodhead wagon turned up. Parked up and ready to load in the morning. Top service as usual, the wagon drivers are the unsung hero’s.

Tomorrow’s batch heading to Woodheads…

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A shed full of fat cattle, 3 more sheds like it.

As fast as it started, it’s finished. Calving 2024 ✅
This young lady calved a little bull calf today, she’s a home bred cow, one of our favourites.
Big change this year just calving 25. It’s been a pleasure with only assisting one. 6 week calving.

No messing around today. Just over 100k gallon spread. This will boost the silage crops massively. Another day tomorrow and most the silage ground should be done. Maybe get some barley sown next.

We have had a lovely run of calves this last few days. We will have rakes of bulls to sell next year for anyone needing them. Ideal for sucklers and dairy beef. Love them.

Set away to clear a pipe end. Ended up getting very involved and making lots of wet holes. It’s a very satisfying job nevertheless. These drains havnt ran for quite a while by the looks of the colour.

Breakfast…

We never made it in person to the Expo today, we just can’t miss a dry day at the moment. Our cattle made it tho, enjoying the people visiting the Woodhead/elite stand. Hope folk had a great day and learned something.

Which one is your favourite?

No better breed in the world.
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This week’s batch of cattle snug as a bug. Early morning load and away to Woodheads. Mixed bag of heifers heading out making room for stores that came in. We are proud of the beef we are producing from our little spot in Cumbria.

Watched a couple of the National trust tenancy programme. It leaves me wondering what the future is for my best pall if he decides he’s keen to produce food. It so far has just demonstrated the idyllic James Herriot style farming. Not actual real farming.

It’s happening…. It’s as good as we are going to get. Plan is to get it turned over for better chance of drying. Very claggy atm.

4 years ago to the day we got our first dairy blue calves. The addiction took hold and now we have around 600.

A look through some of the feeding this morning.
The feeder is one of the most used tools on the farm. Feeding out roughly 10tonne of feed daily. It weighs, mixes and chops. Then feeds out accurately to each group of cattle. Couldn’t do our job without it.

I think they call it puppy love.

194mm of rain in April so far here. Wettest on record they say. Practically 8 inch.