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KFD68,

As has been said before, "Beautiful pictures"!!! Keep them coming.

How large is the average farm where you are? Do you refer to acres or hectares?

How large are the fields that we see in these pictures?

I certainly wish I hadn't traveled through Wales in the middle of the night...I missed a lot!

Stan
 
(quoted from post at 20:58:42 05/22/12) KFD68,

As has been said before, "Beautiful pictures"!!! Keep them coming.

How large is the average farm where you are? Do you refer to acres or hectares?

How large are the fields that we see in these pictures?

I certainly wish I hadn't traveled through Wales in the middle of the night...I missed a lot!

Stan
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Because this area is hilly and 95% livestock, the farms are quite small. Many were family farms of less than 100 acres until recent years. Now some have been sold or rented to neighbours to make larger 200-300 acre units.

The average dairy cow herd would be 200-300 cows as a family farm. But there are some 600-700 cow farms. Further south {inland} where the land is better there are some 1000 cow herds.

Field sizes between 5 acres and 15 acres - done some 2 acre fields for silage. The larger fields are made by removing the earth banks topped with hedges, or stone walls and mature trees which divide the fields - but thats expensive to do.

Its also easier to control cattle grazing in smaller fields divided by hedges to get optimum grazing. The hedges also help control of the high winds off the sea in winter and provide natural shelter and homes for birds & wild life.

Britain has to use Metric units - fields measured in Hectares for Official purposes. But being an "old" man I still work in acres
 
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