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30th January 2009

We have just undergone our annual ACCS inspection here on the farm which is a thorough inspection including spray and fertiliser stores and record keeping, cattle movement book, medicine book, seed labelling, feed tickets, records of grain store cleaning and farm risk assessment.  Cattle passport numbers are checked; the inspector will ask to go to a livestock barn where he will point out four animals at random.  The ear tag numbers of these four are noted down; back in the office we must produce and check the individual passports for each animal.

Cattle passports - normally in excess of 1000

Farming is so dependent on the weather and finally yesterday, the weather and the ground conditions were good enough for Roy to get on with some ploughing out in ‘18 Acres’.

Sam has the slightly smelly job of mucking out barns here at home.  He starts by using the Matbro to bucket out the muck, loading into a trailer and the awkward corners must be mucked out by hand. Mucking out is a very important job which I’m sure must come round far too often for Sam, but saves him from going to the gym!

Hot work in January!