Fascinately afternoon's milking, we had a visitor in the parlour. Tom Brown from the BBC East Midlands Today team, visit our farm this afternoon, filming Mark and Harry milking our cows, doing a piece for EMT Breakfast bulletins tomorrow! It's all about the wet weather affecting the cows, muddy gateways, lack of grazing pasture and the knock-on effect for our winter fodder. As you know, with all this wet weather no hay has been made yet, and what silage we managed to get into the clamp is very wet stuff and low feed value, which means buying in extra dry feed during this winter is a cost we are not in a position to afford.
On another note, Tom had heard about our QR coded cow, and wants to do another piece on that later in the year. Meanwhile, Mark and Harry are off to the Dairy Crisis Summit at Westminster tomorrow to be among the 2000 plus dairy farmers protesting against the latest price cuts for milk due to come into effect on 1st August. Unfortunately I've got a school visit to our farm tomorrow, so unable to go to London.
He interviewed me and Mark separately so lets see who makes it on the film and which of us is left on the cutting room floor!
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