Walk with Donald: summer morning at Glensaugh

Farm manager Donald Barrie describes luing cows and calves at the James Hutton Institute's Glensaugh farm near Laurencekirk, Scotland: these animals are constantly on the move from paddock to paddock in our rotational grazing system. Ewes and lambs have had the best of the grass before the cows were brought in to tidy up. One of two bulling groups, this mob contains only pure Luing cows running with our stock bull Dirnanean Wildfire. The sward is a 2001 sown clover rich ley containing ryegrass, cocksfoot and clover on a gravelly soil. www.hutton.ac.uk