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Hay vs Straw- The Truth

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I was in the car recently with my mum and she looked out of the window and remarked that another farmer had made those “big boulder things of grass.” I said: “Do you mean bales, mum?” She did. This made me laugh. There is always some kind of meme going round social media about people … [Read more…]

Silly Season on the Farm

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Recently, I wrote a piece about loneliness on the farm in the summerloneliness on the farm in the summer. What is the reason for this loneliness? Silly season. When I worked at the newspaper, most of the summer was traditionally known as silly season-when news is thin on the ground. Mainly because of the break … [Read more…]