How should I spend my surplus cash? A Maria Steen handbag or a new cow? Or renewable energy?

I’d also like to invest in small-scale wind power, to future-proof the farm against changing weather, but there’s no government support – unlike in the UK

‘The prompt Department payment this year plus the increase in revenue due to the micro-dairy has created a cash surplus that is making me as uncomfortable as the usual cash deficit’. Photo: Don Moloney

I realise that this is going to sound like a billionaire complaining that their masseuse is late, but I am about to complain about the Department of Agriculture actually paying us on time.

I could do a Maria Steen and buy a handbag but the only place I’d have to take it is the milking parlour and I’m not sure it would hold enough dairy parapher

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