At Brades Farm Dairy, Farleton, in the Lune Valley we specialise in producing high quality, milk products from our own dairy herd, giving you the reassurance of knowing exactly where your milk and cream is coming from - straight from our farm to our customers.

The Towers family have lived at Brades Farm since 1960 and as a family run business, we are particularly proud of our commitment to maintaining the natural landscape and wildlife of the beautiful Lune Valley. We do this through conscientious farming practices that meet the highest standards of environmental management and animal welfare.

We are dedicated to providing you with friendly, customer-focused service, complete with 7 day delivery and a 24 hour ordering facility. For more details, please see our services page, or contact us if you have a particular enquiry.

May 2009

Spring has arrived and this month we have turned out some of our young stock into the fields and have sown our maize crop. The winter wheat we sowed last autumn when it was very wet weather is enjoying the sunshine now and is looking good.

We started to cut the grass for our silage crop on the 19^th of May. This crop will form a large portion of the diet given to our cows over the winter months.

The weather was showery which was not ideal for making silage so we scaled it out to help it dry.

Then the grass is rowed up into a long sausage.

This year we used a rattle box for picking up the grass.

And also the forager with tractor and trailer method of picking up the grass as well. This helped with the rate of bringing the grass from the fields to the farm, as the weather was not good.

We use contractors for scaling out, rowing up and picking up the grass but do all the mowing and some of the carting ourselves. It is a very busy time, with all the usual jobs to be done on the farm as well.

Brades Farm Dairy, Farleton, Lancaster LA2 9LF