. . . I can tell what's going on today. There's a well known agricultural whiff in the air.
But it has to be done.
In winter we have to spread slurry if the pit and tower are filling up. But at that time of year we are just spreading it to make room for more (what goes in one end, must come out the other). But in late March we start to spread in earnest. There's an optimum time to apply this wonderful natural resource to the fields, and that time is now. It can be a bit tricky if the ground is still very soft (which it is) or if the fields are steep (which some are), but we've almost got round the whole farm now. If the rain holds off till later today we will have done all we can, and the rest is up to nature and the nutrients in the good organic slurry.
We've seen some of our neighbours venturing out with fertiliser spreaders, but that's one expense and job we don't have.
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There's clearly a difference in the weather between Strickley and here in South-West France. Yesterday, 07 April, I saw a local farmer making his first cut of silage!
We had a wet, warm winter and a hot, showery Spring so far - but that has to be a record.
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