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January
- General farm maintenance
- House sheep and feed them sugar beet & sheep nut if frosty/snow cover
- Calves weaned at end of month and fed on concentrates & sugar beet ration
- Spread slurry if fields are dry and firm from frost. These are fields from which hay or silage will be taken later in the year
- Vegetable harvest
- Sugar beet harvest
February
- General maintenance ongoing
- Sheep pregnancy scanning
- Early calving begins
- Lambing
- Spread slurry
- Vegetable harvest continues
March
- Lambing begins – Sheep sorted according to number of lambs expected and fed concentrate
- Spring calving continues
- Breeding ewes vaccinated
- Ewes feet trimmed to prevent footrot
- Spring sowing
- Cattle out to grass
- Silage cut
April
- Calving continues
- Lambing mostly finished
- Plant potatoes
- Drill oil seed rape
- Drill vining peas
- Spray cereals & sugar beet
- Spread fertiliser on grazing fields to aid growth
May
- Spray potatoes, cereals, sugar beet & peas
- Early potatoes harvested
- Silage cut
- Clean out all livestock buildings
- Lambs tailed, castrated & ear-tagged
- Sheeps’ long tails sheared to prevent fly strike
- Hay making begins
June
- Sheep shearing
- Hay making
- Routine sheep welfare, (e.g drenching for worms, footbathing etc)
- Silage
- Spring born calves de-horned
- Irrigate potatoes to encourage growth
July
- Sheep shearing continues
- Labs given vaccinations
- Hay making
- Silage
- Vining peas
- Begin combining cereals
- Bailing straw
- Irrigate potatoes
August
- Silage making
- Lambs weaned and turned onto grass left after hay & silage crops have been taken
- Combine harvest cereals
- Begin ploughing & cultivation for next years’ cereals
- Fruit picking
- Oil seed rape harvest
September
- Wether lambs sold as they finish or as store lambs for further fattening
- More fruit picking
- Oil seed rape & other cereal harvest continues
- Harvest potatoes
- Drill winter wheat, oil seed rape & barley
October
- Ewes dipped & cool clipped around tail ready for tupping
- Unfinished wether lambs sold as stores or brought inside for further fattening
- Wean & house calves
- House feeding cattle
- Cultivate arable fields
- Drill winter wheat
- Harvest potatoes & sugar beet
- Weed & aphid control
November
- Ram sales
- Feed livestock
- Male calves castrated before the onset of frost
- Late drilling of wheat
- Ploughing & cultivating
- Sugar beet harvest
December
- Ploughing
- Spray cereals
- Feed livestock
- Commence general maintenance in preparation for harsher weather