Hello all,
Firstly thank you for all your help and efforts last summer. There were a few hiccups with the trial but I feel the first year over all was a success.
We are now entering the second summer of grazing. You may have noticed that us rangers have put the electric fencing back up on to the heath. We were hoping to put the cattle on to the heath at the start of May but it will very much depend on the weather. At the moment it is too dry, the fire risk is too large and the heath has not really greened up enough for there to be enough food for the cattle to eat. If we get some rain over this coming weekend then I think we will try and get the cattle on sometime next week. The grazier is going to go up to the heath next week anyway and assess whether he thinks there is enough forage.
We are using the same grazier that we used last summer. There will be 4 Friesian steers on the Hart side of the heath and 6 on the Timpany Trust side.
We would still like people to use the blog to tell us when they have checked on the cattle and any little other bits of info such as wildlife sightings or problems. We have a new grazing trial ranger, Laura, who will be in contact shortly.
Lets hope we have another good year of grazing! And wish for rain this weekend. :)
