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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 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 19th
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.
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Brades Farm Dairy, Farleton, Lancaster LA2 9LF |