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What a great time to be a new entrant.

It must seem like In Your Field writers are obsessed by the weather as we always start off with a remark about it. Well, I’m afraid this month I’m following the same pattern.

As I sit and write this, the children have returned to school.

You could be forgiven for thinking it was March. Cooler temperatures have somewhat hampered grass growth of late.

We have had our first Covid-19 vaccination, so there is light at the end of the tunnel and the Easter sunshine helped.

It is great to see our oystercatchers, lapwings and curlews have all returned in the past few weeks as the season gradually changes from winter to spring, and hopefully the next to return will be the cuckoo and the swallows.

I have always been in admiration of progressive farmers and their rotational grazing, use of technology and, of course, the latest improvements of weatherproof clothing from New Zealand.

March was a very productive month all round on the farm.

As with most farms in spring, life has been pretty hectic in our part of Dorset.

It is great to be writing my first column this week, with it just being International Women’s Day and the global theme of Women in Leadership.