Every day it rains.🌧 (Farming The Alps #2)

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good morning it's a nice rainy day I'm getting quite a bit of rain here lately and snow up on the ridge is washing away it's leaving pretty quick which is a little bit sad I'm not really sure what the plan is today so uh let's go find out all right so the plan is to do some sheep fencing uh we're gonna be taking the londini here and I gotta find the fencing brand new
we're gonna be setting up the fence on this bank right here

Switzerland is a small country with lots of steep Rocky Mountains there's a very limited amount of farmland and of that Farmland a much smaller amount would be considered somewhat flat in Switzerland you can't just buy more land to expand your farm a lot of times there just isn't more land to be head for this reason farmers have to use the land they have very carefully to get the most out of it the rain's cleared up a little bit and uh starting to get a little bit brighter maybe it'll clear off completely I doubt it though I think it's gonna pour on me all day at least that's what the weather says ah boohoo I'm gonna get the most out of his land Eric uses different parts of his land for different things farming the flat ground is the least labor intensive so it is almost always reserved for making hay sheep and cows can both go on steep slopes but when you have lots of heavy cows walking on these slopes it tends to damage the ground so sheep take the steepest pastures and cows are pastured on the more moderate slopes and the out this new net has got some rigidity using these plastic like splines I don't know what you called it which is really nice because it keeps the fence from bunching up on the ground this is an electric fence so if the grass is wet and it's touching the electric fence then you lose a lot of your uh electrification but I'm really liking this the question is does it stay or does it just get all kind of bent up like that time will tell it's still raining my boots are uh starting to get wet and I'm out of coffee life is hard but the good news is the fence uh is almost done on this field this corner we're going to leave a section open here for the sheet to come in I think the Sheep are probably going to come over there and then right in here oh yeah so now that this field is done I think we head back to the farm and start working on another field hello okay so it's still raining like crazy so we have a new plan here we are gonna clean out one of the hay Lofts and get it all ready to start making hay here