When it is mild and wet all winter, all I can think is that a bit of cold, dry weather would do just fine.
Talk of workforce shortage is plentiful in the farming press and agri-social media, but solutions are much harder to find.
As our financial year drew to a close on January 31 we found ourselves trying to sift through the wreckage of a year ravaged by Covid-19.
On our first date Isobel told me I was the first farmer she had ever met. Our second date was a trip to see my sheep and we ended up dagging out some fly strike and she didn’t balk then and hasn’t since.