Wiltshire Village Meats Farm Diary - Oct 2008 -

	Wiltshire Village Meats Welfare - - Quality				In association with Walter Rose and son Family Butchers
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	Links to other pages HOME FARM SHOP FARM SHOP - Greeting Cards WALTER ROSE ABOUT OUR FARMING FARM DIARY RECIPES QUESTIONS CONTACT US		October 2008 The sun shines (some of the time!) Some dry weather and even sunshine has finally arrived. Some pretty grey foggy days in between so perhaps not quite an Indian summer. The drier weather has enabled us to make a late cut of silage and get on at last with some planting. The silage was baled in big square bales this year, this required a wonderfully eccentric looking machine to wrap them. We'll use the silage for feeding the cows and perhaps the sows. The big square bales are easier to stack and transport as more can be loaded onto a trailer. I haven't seen many butterflies for the last week or so but a surprising number of moths have been about on the few warmer nights recently, including the handsome beast photographed. The hairy caterpillar is quite a fine fellow too! Little cat diary! Trouble - Bob and Percy want to be house cats and lie on the kitchen table all day. Bob has learned to open the back door by jumping up and swinging on the handle. The last cat we had that learned to do that trick died about 18 years ago. To stop Bob coming in all the time, and leaving the door open, we have to keep the door latched which does mean we run the risk of locking ourselves out! Wednesday 29th October - An Inconvenient Trough! The film we helped make in August continuing our 'Pigs are Worth It' campaign is being launched today at the House of Lords. Cameron has been invited to the breakfast launch so that will be an unusual start to the day. We spent a big part of of Tuesday doing interviews with local media including some filming with Amanda Parr from BBC Points West and an interview with for Farming Today on Radio 4. The purpose of the documentary is to continue to press home the point that British pig meat is produced to much higher welfare standards than most of Europe and indeed the world. Seventy percent of imported pig meat is produced using farming methods that are actually illegal in Britain. If consumers want to retain the choice of buying a high quality, high welfare product they need to Buy British. Although prices have risen most of the rises seen in supermarkets have not been passed back to farmers - we want to keep raising the question - Why? So the campaign goes on - I hope local people are not sick of seeing and hearing us doing interviews but there are not many pig farmers in Wiltshire. Despite the credit crunch I think people have an increasing awareness of issue of food miles and food security. I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted as I hope this website appeals to people who want to know where and how their food is produced. The documentary will be available from the campaign website www.pigsareworthit.com You won't see much of us until Part 2 is released next month apart from a brief glimpse of Cameron and Elvis the Black Boar in the opening shots!
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