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FEBRUARY | DIARY OF A SHEEP FARMER Here is a further instalment from Tom together with Young Sheep Farmer, Jack (aged 7) who also popped in to give me an update.

Look out...sheep are coming to Fussels!

Fine Foods…As I write this it is almost February and I find that following the busyness of the Christmas Season here at Fine Foods, the year is already moving apace.

The season is definitely moving well into Autumn now, with colder mornings and the nights drawing in. With the hour changing, the mornings will be lighter but it will be dark by 5 o’clock!

Fine Foods...as ever it has been pretty busy since my last blog. We are now pressing the new crop of rapeseed which is giving us a good yield and beautiful golden oil. Next year’s crop went in at the end of August and is already coming up.

How quickly a month passes with the harvest being early this summer (no surprise there); it’s been very busy on the farm; tractors hauling grain and seed sometimes until the early hours, double trailers of straw arriving, in addition to our daily haulage lorries; all heading for our weighbridge, to be weighed in and out.