Tag Archives: My farming week

What To Expect When You’re Calving / Lambing

27th February 2017 by Lorna
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Feeding a calf her first feed

It’s been a busy fortnight with the calving and I’m presuming that those lambing will experience similar circumstances when it’s full flow! Let me know if these situations are familiar to you or if I’m totally weird!

Tea is Fuel

Maybe it’s our age, maybe it’s the fact that the weather has been cold and blustery, maybe it’s because we are sleep deprived but unless we get tea at regular intervals, our energy levels and productivity take a nosedive! We know things [...]

My Farming Week: Backwards Calf, Runaway Cow & A Calf Barrow

6th February 2017 by Lorna
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Feeding newborn calf

I once heard a farm wife say how getting away from the farm was never worth it. There was always some saga or something wrong when she returned, making her wonder why on earth she had bothered to try and have a nice day out.

Highlights and a Backwards Calf don’t mix well

That came to my mind on Friday. Apart from the fact that my hair was in dire need of a cut, I had planned a day out where I’d [...]

My Farming Week: January 2017 #1

18th January 2017 by Lorna
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NFU magazine feature piece

It’s mid January and the advantage of going away on holidays early in the year means that the first fortnight of the year has flown by and the disadvantage is I feel I’ve loads to get done now before calving starts around 4th February. This week hasn’t had as much farming in it as I’ve been catching up on other things.

Getting Farmer on Holiday

I’ve had the most relaxing time though – all proved by the fact that the most ginormous [...]

My Farming Week: Things Happening in Threes Again

6th December 2016 by Lorna
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Cows grazing late November

Things are happening in threes again and while they’re not good, they could have been a lot worse. You can’t open a farm paper or pick up a farming leaflet without seeing something about farm safety lately and while of course, it’s good to get the reminders, the worst reminder of all is when we read about a farm death or even worse, it happens to someone we know.

The problem is that many farmers are under time pressure to get [...]

My Farming Week: Reflections and What’s Next

22nd November 2016 by Lorna
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Autumn Trees

My “My Farming Week” posts kinda fell off the wagon early in the summer when I decided I’d better concentrate on writing and editing the book if I was going to publish it for my deadline of September. Apart from the fact that I hope people enjoy reading these posts, I’m having fun writing them too and hopefully, someday, I’ll look back on them with some nostalgia. Wouldn’t it be lovely to be able to find diaries of our grandparents [...]