Many of our fields have been sitting under water and some bits are still too wet to take a tractor near. A number of our winter crops have died after being submerged for so long, so we’re having to re-sow with different crops.  However, Scott and Matthew have been working around the clock and managed to finish sowing at lunch time today. Our hero’s!

We have been relatively lucky. Lambing and calving started just as the weather turned and many of our fields are dry enough to cultivate. Lots of farmers have had it worse than us. There are reports of dead lambs, fields still submerged and a sea of mud throughout Scotland. Sadly, I think parts of England got even more rain than us.

It’s been pretty stressful but it just shows what a team can achieve when everyone works together. Going forward we need to be prepared for more extreme weather which is hard without a crystal ball telling us what’s going to happen. Let’s just hope we get some warmer weather and get some growing done! Just the rolling to finish now 

We met Katherine Hay a few weeks ago, who is the rural affairs correspondent for the Scotsman and is walking the length of the country interviewing people in rural Scotland. The weather she has walked through and the distances she has covered is amazing. We really enjoyed speaking to her in some rare sunshine in our courtyard. We’ve just seen an article she wrote yesterday about the plight of rural Scotland in the aftermath of so many storms and rain, with many farmers saying it’s the worst winter in living memory.