Hello there!
It seems like just a blink of an eye since my last post, but in reality it is some weeks now with the Christmas and new year celebrations a distent and pleasurable memory. One reason I guess for the apparent disappearance of time is that I have been so busy with my hedge trimming commitments, and still can’t quite believe how fortunate I have been this season to be able to take on new work offered to me over and above my normal workload. This is a consiquence of the continuing weather conditions which appear to be working with me for once. On the brief occasions when we do get a wet spell I simply revert to road and lane work, and then when the downpours stop there has been sufficient cold and dry weather to allow me back into the fields, infact as I write this blog in the second half of January we are enjoying another lovely spell of cold and frosty days and nights together with some clear days of unbroken sunshine which although can prove to be a bit dazzling (if you don’t plan your work route correctly)are wonderful for lifting the spirits, so all in all it makes for a very satisfied basher man!
As is so often the case where business and agricultural is concerned I have been experiencing the seesaw effect, i.e. where one thing is good then something else is trying its best to counteract it, and in my case it’s my haylage sales which are significantly down on recent years. This now presents me with a bit of a dilemma, I have to make a decision very shortly as to whether I should enter a number of bales into a fodder sale where I have to accept that it may only go for its cost price together with having to forfeit the auctioneers commission, or should I hang on and hope we have a late spring where by I could realise some sort of profit dare I say. On occasions such as this I do tend to sympathise a little with those city traders who have to make these sort of decisions on a daily basis, it’s a case of trying to look into that crystal ball and hoping the decision you make will end up be the least damaging one financially.
On the wildlife front there is very little to report from the Farm, apart from sightings of a couple of hares, and on the odd occasions I noted some Roe deer, but as the evenings start to draw out as they are now then things will begin to liven up once more.
Bye for now
23rd January 2017
