Kay Adam, Newhouse of Glamis, Angus

As I write this the Strathmore
Valley is filling up with various lakes and new wetland areas, the bulls aren’t enjoying the daily mud bath but they
haven’t quite developed webbed feet just yet! We have been very lucky here at Glamis and most of the water has
found a way out, probably landing up in the underwater lake, which will keep Strathmore Springs bottling plant going
for a while longer!
Bob’s heading out to Regina in Canada next week to look at some black and
red polled Limousin cattle, and I’m getting left at home to deal with the Blackie lambs who are managing to walk
through every fence they come across!

Open Day Sunday

Birthdays have never been a big event in our household so

when I went into my office on my birthday to check my emails I was not surprised to see no emails from my sisters,

but one from Eilidh, how did she know?! Not birthday wishes but, please can you write another 650 words.....by

tomorrow would be great!

The Firth goes Forth

Well, since my last article some things have been

good, some bad and some indifferent.

The wheat has emerged from the puddle that is the Firth, although not

covering all the ground that was sown. Headriggs and wetter bits have failed to emerge some patching-in may be

needed.

At this stage the winter barley looks OK. No spray has gone on yet, so hopefully, we can get on soon

before the sprays that we purchased become illegal – that’s IPU and Treflan.

Ploughing has been near

impossible even downhill!

All the lambs were away before the price rose. “~*@~# typical! Anyway they had to

go as we were under pressure to get the ewes inside. The urea wheat lamb feeding did not work so well this year.

There seemed more resistance to eating from some lambs so the “Gollum’s” had to be put on a barley /blend/silage

mix. This meant we still had lambs left after Xmas so the last lot went to Longtown store. It looked a good price

for about a week!!

Strawberry Fields Forever

‘Just wondering if you fancy writing for me....? .....I haven’t any one from the Lothian’s.’ Why can I not just say what I think, why do I just not say ‘no’!! Oh well here we go let’s give it a bash, ‘just 5-600 words’ she said. Brings back memories of filling out SRDP funding applications and watching the number counter at the bottom of Microsoft Word. That’s another story. Anyway, I am John Sinclair and I ‘farm’ at West Craigie Farm just between Edinburgh and South Queensferry.