Help! ...a look at your options when labour is tight on the farm
The most obvious choice is to look to employ farm staff, but the reality is that there isn’t a cohort of people lying idly by waiting for a chance to go work on a dairy farm, writes rural accountant Kieran Coughlan.
Help! Help, I need somebody! Help, not just anybody! These words were immortalised by The Beetles but are as relevant today as when first penned when it comes to farm workloads.
This week and the next three weeks will see a huge number of calves born on dairy farms. The workload goes from a steady pace to outright mayhem in the space of a few days.
