Blogs

We finally felt like we had turned a corner with our farming enterprise. We were above target for the year in terms of silage, cattle growth and our bank balance.

In what has been an all or nothing sort of year when it comes to grass growing weather, August is defying expectations and turning out to be bang on, with plenty of rain and warmth to boot.

Is there a case for private bTB testing in cattle in GB? The answer isn’t straightforward.

As the year continues on apace, we entered the whirl of second cut. I’m sure I’m not the only wife/mother who goes through these times in an anxious state.

Put in layman’s terms, an agricultural common is an area of land which has an owner, usually described as The Lord of the Manor, who doesn’t farm it but  allows another farmer to graze it if they have either bought the right to graze it when they bought his/her farm, or else pays for the right via the tenancy of the farm he/she farms.

Mid-August and the often-talked-about ’mid-summer dip’ arrived.

Son Sam arrived home after shearing 10,000 sheep in the Scottish Highlands, and it is great to have him back.

This year is a big one in the Amiss household, with one graduation, one first-year exam results, one A-levels and two GCSE results.

Or to be more accurate, it wasn’t the shearing that was the biggest job – it was gathering them all first.

This month I have for you the story of how a ginger kid is starring in a supermarket advert.