We are a Dairy!!

Finally all the hard work has paid off. At the beginning of this week we heard back from the Department of Agriculture regarding the milk sample we supplied them. It passed all the required tests easily and we are therefore now an official dairy. Although this part of the state was thick with dairies many years ago they have all since closed and we are now the only licensed dairy in Douglas County, and only the second current sheep dairy in Oregon.

This week we also had further enquiries regarding our milk, so come October when the lambing for this next season starts, we will have plenty of avenues for our milk.

Haying is all but done with just one last field to be baled. We should end up with around 300 bales which is a good 50 more than last year. The rain has finally stopped now and we should be in for a couple of months of fine clear skies. This weekend the dam goes in and as soon as the last hay bales are removed from the field I can start manure spreading. Busy time of the year, but in a month or so we will have the calm before the storm of lambing and milking.