The Strange Case of the Talking Tup (That's a Ram)

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There's an area of land that seems to stretch from Gloucestershire up through the West Midlands towards Cheshire where we have experienced a drought year that compares in severity with that of 1976.

Fields everywhere are brown; our own fields have odd green patches in them in the damp places where you should really put a drain. It's a really strange phenomenon because in the scheme of things we live on a tiny island, I have friends who live in Cumbria where it is so wet that they have had to keep their cows in at night.

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The Strange Case of the Talking Tup (That's a Ram)

Most farms are short of winter feed and it will be a real ongoing problem unless we can take some late silage. Fodder and straw prices are already at record levels. If you keep beef cattle you have the option of selling stock but with dairy cows, well you just want to keep them. ...

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