We have drilled another 180 acres of maize this weekend, and work is almost completed on the next area to be drilled.

Young stock at Tillington have been wormed, and we are planning to turn out the in-calf heifers this week if the weather is suitable. I also hope that the first group of cows will be out by the time you read this column. They are rattling the gates on a daily basis as they smell the fresh grass and are keen to go out.

We have commissioned our slurry separators over the weekend, with great success. 'Martha' and 'Arthur' are now running all day, firmly bolted to a magnificent structure fabricated by local ace engineer Neil Harrison.


They take it in turns to be the one also running all night, as the pressure is on to separate all the slurry in the tower in order to get the solid muck out to the remaining maize ground.


The liquid part is returned to the tower, where it will be pumped out on the silage ground after first-cut silage.

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette April 30