News from the Farmer ’ s Wife In the Spring Newsletter I ended my news saying we were busy preparing for our annual Farm and Grain Assurance renewal inspection. Farmers can never predict the outcome, thankfully the assessor was happy to give Cairndae approval for another year. As I write this article, in the second half of April, the days are lengthening but the cold is persisting, work on the land is well behind schedule, ploughing still to be done and muck to spread. Many fields are still waterlogged and it will take time and patience to allow conditions to be ideal for sowing the seeds. At this time of year it is usually easy to see the signs of spring all around, many farmers busy with calving and lambing or preparing the fields for planting barley, oats, potatoes and swedes and other crops. Not this year! The cold north wind that we have had over the past few weeks just penetrates the body it is almost surprising to see the grass growing and trees blossoming. Unfortunately, with the continued rain and cold it has proved very challenging. Those lambing recently have faced many difficulties, a new born lamb can withstand cold and dry as long as it gets a suck from its mum, but not wet and cold, that is disaster if they are outside and have no shelter.
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