Glensaugh News 30 August 2010

Glensaugh will participate in the North East Scotland Preservation Trust’s doors open day event on Saturday 18 September when we will offer two guided walks around the farm.

The first of Glensaugh’s 2010 lamb crop were sold on 18 August and averaged £69 per head. The market remains strong. All lambs are now weaned on to silage aftermaths. For the first time we have retained 45 Texel cross ewe lambs as breeding stock, a further move towards closing our flock and which will reduce the number of gimmers which we require to purchase in 2011.

Glensaugh will participate in the North East Scotland Preservation Trust’s doors open day event on Saturday 18 September when we will offer two guided walks around the farm. While visitors are welcome at any time (and our access trail is now being used regularly) the event on the 18th will allow the public to learn more about what we do and “what we keep in our sheds”.

While we are always busy working with livestock, infrastructure projects dominate the day to day lives of myself and John Black. John is tirelessly dismantling fences in front of our contractor as we work through another busy programme and prepare more areas for forestry planting in 2011. Meanwhile I am busy preparing the ground for our biomass project where the site is now clear and construction will begin in late September.

Finally rumours may have reached you that a lone swimmer has been spotted in Loch Saugh. This was me, preparing for a swimming trip to the West Coast. The Loch is good training venue, although a bit shallow in places.