Here is a snapshot of the key farming calendar across our farms. Why not time your shoot to coincide with some really fascinating activities taking place on the farms. Timings do vary year to year, and some activities (for example shearing or forge harvest) only take place on one or more days, so be sure to keep in touch so as not to miss out!
January
- Ewes are pregnancy scanned and those to be lambed indoors, are brought into the sheds from the fields.
- Hay and straw are used for own stock or sold and shipped to other farms
February
- Sheep are crutched out (their backsides are shorn!) in preparation for lambing
- Hay and straw haulage
March
- Lambing time
- Spring crops are drilled (spring barley, wheat, oil seed rape)
- Potatoes are planted
April
- Lambing time
- Cereals and potatoes continue to be planted
- Calving
May
- Irrigation of crops
- Shearing of tegs (young sheep)
- Silage making
- Hay making
June
- Silage making
- Shearing of ewes and rams
- Hay making
July
- Harvest begins from mid-July (combine harvesters, balers, corn cart and bale cart)
August
- Harvest time
September
- End of cereals harvest
- Start of potato harvest
- Seeding of new crops for next year begins
October
- Continued drilling of crops
- Tupping time (rams start their work on the ewes!)
November
- Grading potatoes and bagged up
November
- Grading potatoes and bagged up