How cow helped forge links with local school: Despite being busy with winter feeding and cubicle building, our Yorkshire correspondent Tim Gibson still found time to talk to the local schoolchildren about where their milk comes from

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We are enjoying a relatively mild autumn at the moment, but knowing how fateful it is to write about the weather in Dairy Farmer, it will probably mean that winter will be well upon us when you're reading this! However at the moment it is dry and we have plenty of grass. The cows are in at night but are free to go out during the day. Currently we are cutting and carting grass for them and we have more than enough grass cover to keep going as long as conditions are OK to travel. Silage stocks are goodand we have opened up the whole crop wheat to feed with grass. It seems much drier than in previous years and that is confirmed in the analysis. We have consciously not made as much grass or whole crop silage as usual as we never manage to get the clamps empty year on year now, mainly because of the zero grazing late in autumn and early in spring.