The Farming Year - March
Jobs on a cattle and arable farm in March can include;
- Spring ploughing.
- Selling surplus grain.
- Muck spreading on fodder beet land.
- Bedding up cattle once a day.
- Feeding cattle twice a daily.
- Milling and mixing animal feed.
- Calving cows.
- Disbudding (dehorning) calves.
- Feeding poultry twice daily.
- Letting poultry out to free range in a morning.
- Locking up the poultry huts on a night.
- Cleaning out the poultry huts.
- Servicing the crop sprayer.
- Selling potatoes to the crisp factory.
- Potatoes are washed and loaded into lorries.
- Potatoes are sent to the crisp factory.
- Rolling mole hills down and catching moles in grass fields.
- Apply pot ash fertilizer to potato fields (should have been done in February but too wet this year).
- Apply compound fertilizer to wheat and barley crops ( a February job, but too wet this year).
- Top dressing applied to oilseed rape.
- Nitrogen fertilizer applied to Winter wheat and Winter barley.
- Sow Spring barley.
- Apply fertilizer to Spring barley.
- Apply fertilizer to potato seed bed.
- Plant potatoes at the end of the month.
- Start crop spraying on cereals.
