Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham 'I wonder if these dry spells might lead to innovation?'

After starting my last article with ‘well the sun is finally shining’, this time I’ll begin by saying ‘hurrah it has finally rained! Farmers and the weather, eh?!

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Dairy Talk - Claire Eastham 'I wonder if these dry spells might lead to innovation?'

We tried to plough (yes I know) one Saturday and the ground was too wet to go. We managed to plough it by the Monday and by the Friday we were already starting to get concerned the crop would never grow....

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