Summer Oats for Winter Feed
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Ion Trant, of Maesmawr Hall, Welshpool, uses this edition of the BBC children's programme he filmed/scripted to answer the question “What do you find to do on your farm in winter?” Even without the live commentary, it is evident that a successful winter – when cattle are well fed, their weight watched as they fatten up – is dependent on a good summer harvest. In 1959 the sun shone on the mowing and threshing of oats which, mixed with root crops, provide good calf feed.