Summer harvest 2021 has been busier than ever. Labour shortages combined with few ‘good combining days’ have certainly seen the grey hair count increase rapidly.
Put in layman’s terms, an agricultural common is an area of land which has an owner, usually described as The Lord of the Manor, who doesn’t farm it butÌýÌýallows another farmer to graze it if they have either bought the right to graze it when they bought his/her farm, or else pays for the right via the tenancy of the farm he/she farms.
Mid-August and the often-talked-about ’mid-summer dip’ arrived.
Son Sam arrived home after shearing 10,000 sheep in the Scottish Highlands, and it is great to have him back.