Meet a farmer
There is no such thing as a typical British farmer
but here are a few to be going on with
Name:
John Cresswell
Name:
Age: 38
David Wilkin
From:
Age: 45
Belford,
From:
Northumberland
Cooks Green Farm,
Little Clacton, Essex.
Produces: Deer and Sheep.
Produces: Finished pigs. Carries out
Favourite Job: Easy successful lambing on
owl conservation projects on many
a warm spring day.
neighbouring farms.
Least Favourite Job: Difficult lambing
Favourite Job:
during a cold, windy late winters day.
I genuinely like looking after pigs.
Best thing about farming: Working
If you keep pigs happy then you
outside in the beautiful Northumberland
keep them healthy.
Hills.
Least Favourite Job: Spreading pig
Worst thing about farming: Clearing up
muck on the land.
tourist litter.
Best thing about farming: Barn
Owl conservation is one of my
passions. Having farmers as friends
Name:
and neighbours gives me the chance
Hugh Broad
to carry out conservation on lots of
Age: 37
farms.
From:
Worst thing about farming:
Woodhead
The fact that consumers tend to
Farm, East
ignore my high welfare pig meat and
Lothian,
just buy the cheapest, usually from
Scotland
abroad.
Produces: Malting barley for beer
production and wheat for whisky
distilling.
Name: Paul and John
Favourite Job: Ploughing, it's a
Richards
demanding job but rewarding when
Age: 44 and 46
you get it spot on.
From: Splattenridden
Least Favourite Job: Any time you
Farm, Hayle, Cornwall
get barley dust down your neck, the
Produces: Milking 150 cows; growing crops such as early
itching can make a sane man go
potatoes and cauliflowers which suit the mild Cornish winters.
mad
Favourite Job: Paul - Bringing the cows in to milk at sunrise
Best thing about farming: After a
on a early summer morning. John - harvesting new potatoes
long day driving the combine during
while catching a good price.
harvest, relaxing with a wee dram
or a beer and thinking "without
Least Favourite Job: Both - visiting the bank manager.
farmers like me, this stuff wouldn't
Best thing about farming: The fact that the our farm is also
exist".
the family home, where we grew up and where the next
Worst thing about farming: The
generation grows up.
idea that the only way to survive is
Worst thing about farming (both say): The time it takes my
to farm more and more acres.
brother to realise I was right after all.
I enjoy having lots of farming
neighbours. I don't like the dog eat
dog mentality.
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