With the benefits of the fall in the £/€ rate, good grass and reportedly continuing poor arable margins, demand for fat, store and breeding sheep appears to have resulted for us anyway in early strong interest for our shearling ewes. The last went this week, probably 4-6 weeks earlier than last year. We still have
July 2015 After an unusually cold May and early June, we eventually got a good first cut of haylage bailed. With grass now getting well ahead of the sheep we will no doubt land up with a surplus, which is where I like to be. During the summer we rigorously graze on a paddock system,
I suppose the weathermen warned a few years ago that global warming would result in increasingly wet winters (which we most certainly have had over the last couple of years), more storms and (still to come) increasingly hot dry summers. If this is a trend, then there are clearly serious implications for all of us.
Like others the weather impact over the last 9 months certainly impacted the finishing of our fat lambs this year. The last of which went by the second week of February – effectively two months later than any other year, even though for the last 6 weeks they were on haylage and concentrates. With lamb