July has seen a challenging month on the farm with regard to the weather. We have not seen many days without significant rainfall and this makes it very difficult to make hay for the stock to eat in the winter. Luckily for us we had made most of our feed at the end of June / first week of July, before the worst of the weather arrived.
In between trying to make hay we have been getting other jobs up together, such as treatments on sheep - including spraying the ewes to prevent them getting fly strike. We have also been cleaning out sheds at the farm in anticipation of the cattle coming back indoors in the autumn.
Markets and sales have been holding steady in July, with no great increase - largely down to the lack of that barbeque summer that we were predicted.
However trade custom has increased and we have taken on several large customers in the restaurant sector - this is surely a good sign.
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