Farm Diary

I am pushing on with my grass reseeding programme, and although it is getting late and the nights are cold, I feel I can chance a few more acres.

The grass seed we did put in the ground in August has been water-logged much of the time but it's away now and the fields are turning green. Much of our straw has been a total loss but I have managed to get a reasonable stack, which will last some months.

The building site is still drying out after the flood and it now has a generous coating of cow slurry on it which had got into the mix as the flood water washed through the sheds and overflowed the reception pit '“ nice!

I was at the Dairy Event last week at Stoneleigh Park. It was extremely busy on the first day but the sunshine kept many away on the second day and it was much easier to look around and talk to people for that reason.

I spent the first day on the NFU stand talking to members, politicians, retailers, processors and other people in the industry, with Dairy UK and our (NFU) resignation from that organisation the hot topic of the day.

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette September 24