Jobs on a cattle and arable farm in April can include;
- Bedding up cattle once a day.
- Feeding cattle twice a daily.
- Milling and mixing animal feed.
- Calving cows.
- Disbudding (dehorning) calves.
- Selling cattle.
- Electric fences put up around grass fields.
- Cattle turned out to grass during the last few days of the month.
- Feeding poultry twice daily.
- Letting poultry out to free range in a morning.
- Locking up the poultry huts on a night.
- Cleaning out the poultry huts.
- Nitrogen fertilizer applied to Winter wheat and Winter barley.
- Start crop spraying on cereals.
- Apply fungicide and insecticide to oilseed rape.
- Apply manganese to Spring barley.
- Apply herbicide to late drilled Winter wheat.
- Apply fungicide to Winter wheat and Winter barley.
- Drilling fodder beet and cover crop.
- Apply first herbicide to fodder beet.
- Building grain store.
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