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Due to the fact that most schools and nurseries have had to close to comply with HM Government’s response to the pandemic outbreak, children and young persons who live on farms are likely to be at home on the farm for a number of weeks.
Many farmers face stress, which is an important contributor to mental health problems. Pressures resulting from long working hours, market fluctuations, livestock disease or poor harvest can take their toll. Financial worries, isolation and real threats of targeted crime also increase farmers’ vulnerability to low mood, rumination and paranoid thinking.
Don’t forget to submit your 2020 applications for all BPS (Basic Payment Scheme), ES (Environmental Stewardship – ELS, HLS) and CS Revenue/Annual (Countryside Stewardship) claims.
Flooding last winter was on an adverse scale; it has affected many farmers during a busy time. A repercussion for one of our farmers, was that his lambing shed flooded 3 times in the course of a few months. He lost multiple bales of straw and had to lamb many of his sheep outdoors, which resulted in a higher mortality rate. Check out our blog written by CXCS employee, Stacy Griffiths, giving tips for lambing this season.
The Welsh Government has recently released a new scheme in order to “Keep Wales Tidy”. This new initiative involves planting packs of native seeds and plants somewhere local.