Paula Hynes: Water is the source of life, and essential for farms

A cow will drink anything from 30 to 120 litres of water a day, so as you can imagine availability is key for successful farming, writes Farming columnist and Aherla dairy farmer Paula Hynes.

Dean Harte drilling for water on the Hynes farm recently.

Water is the source of life, everything needs it to grow and to stay alive. 

The weather since early March has been extremely dry up until this week, and the UK Met Office has already said this has been the sunniest spring on record. While we waited for the moisture to return from overhead, we went in search of water below us and drafted in Martin and Dean Harte well drilling.