farm 'n' equine has a new online look
farm ‘n’ equine's new website is here! Easy-to-navigate pages complement all the news, features and information packed into printed magazine published each month. We've even included click-through access to advertisers' websites, so its simple to find out more about the products and services featured in the magazine each month.
So what's in the December / January issue? So it’s wet. In fact wetter than last year and even wetter than the year before that. Cumbria’s recent rainfall figures read more like the monsoon season in the Far East and despite all the rhetoric about global warming, it seems, so we are told, that this is just a historical ‘blip’ and well, such things happen now and again. Really?
The weather and ground conditions are so fundamental to everything that happens in the countryside and after three wet summers in succession, many are now reviewing the management and cropping plans used for generations. Hot, sunny hay-making days of yore are an increasingly distant memory, cereal harvests and potato harvests are all being affected and even the use of grazing land is influenced by ground conditions. Next year it seems, many farmers will be planning to do things a little differently and accurate weather forecasting will be essential to enable them to make the most of the opportunity presented by any timely dry spell. Weather forecasting may not be an exact science, but given the technology now available to the meteorological office, it’s hard to see why it isn’t better!
If you're a facebook fan, you've probably already found farm 'n' equine's page, which had over 100 fans within one week of going live and is a great way of keeping up with news and other issues. Why not take a look.
Pam Harrison - Editor