Can anyone else believe it is already July? Usually July is one of my favourite months of the year, the main jobs on the farm shearing and silage are usually finished by the Royal Welsh and then as a treat at the end of it we have a week in the caravan at the Show! Not sure that is going to pan out this year. We have finished the shearing and hopefully the fleece will go off this week/early next week but it has been a battle with the weather to get them shorn in batches at a time. But as for silage - we haven't had more than 1 day dry at a time to enable us to do anything with it and that means that if it is dry Show week, Alan will be at home.
Today, farmers and representatives are up in London trying to raise awareness of the unfair prices which dairy farmers get for the milk they produce. Meinir is there on behalf of Agri Advisor and I hope that it will highlight the disproportion between what farmers and processors received for the milk as opposed to the supermarkets. It is unjustifiable that a supermarket gets approximately 50% of the price made for milk by the consumer.
Progress is going well with the barns with one roof, bar the tiles back up and now work is starting on the inside and stone walls. It is very exciting to see the transformation and to see the plans we have become a reality.
Looking forward to the Royal Welsh and praying for a week of nice weather before the Show so that our silage is wrapped up by then!
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