Cattle farming in winter

I like to try to get out on farms shooting stock as much as possible, which usually is arable farming. this time of year though apart from the odd bits and pieces there is very little happening.

So I decided to take myself off to shoot some beef cattle in their winter stalls.

The Cattle are Limousin cross 

What a difference a few days make

What a difference a few days makes with the weather. For weeks now, the weather has been unbelievably mild to such an extent, that some farmers were talking about doing some spraying and last Friday Tony Leech Agri Contractor was out spraying a farmers Oil seed rape, to remove black grass, volunteer cereals and wild oats, with a Chemical called Kerb.

Today however the weather in Surrey is very different, with icy conditions and frost, which can clearly be seen here on the ground around this rape, which was taken on the southern slope of Reigate Hill, this morning