farm, food & countryside

Meet a farmer

A few more British farmers

Name:

Paul Temple

Age: 42

Name:

From:

Robert and Sarah

Wold Farm,

Helliwell

Driffield,

From: Upper

Yorkshire

Booth Farm,

Hope Valley,

Produces: Wheat for bread making and

Derbyshire

animal feed. Oilseeds for vegetable oil.

Peas for canning.

Produces: 400 Swaledale

Favourite Job: Driving the combine.

sheep and Belted Galloway

cattle.

Least Favourite Job: Form filling.

Favourite Job: Checking

Best thing about farming: Working

the sheep while taking in

outdoors amongst nature through the

the view.

different seasons. There is always something

interesting to see from the tractor cab.

Least Favourite Job:

Trimming feet.

Worst thing about farming: The rubbish

you have to read in the papers about

Best thing about farming:

farmers not caring about the wildlife on

Being able to mix work and

their farms.

family.

Worst thing about

farming:

The insecurity.

Name:

Marion

Regan

From:

Kent

Produces: Strawberries,

raspberries, blackcurrants, apples.

Name: David Johnson

Favourite Job: Taste testing the

Age: 36

first strawberries of the year.

From: Greenhills Farm

Warrington. Cheshire

Least Favourite Job: Planting out

on cold wet winter, mornings.

Produces: Milks 80 cows.

Best thing about farming:

Being associated with one of the

Favourite Job: Calving, the exciting bit is finding out the sex of

best things about British summers

the calf. Dairy farmers much prefer girls to boys. Little girls

- British strawberries.

grow into good milkers, unfortunately little boys don't.

Worst thing about farming:

Least Favourite Job: Mucking out by hand, my back hurts just

Seeing fruit that could be grown

thinking about it.

in Britain being imported from

Best thing about farming: Showing school children where

thousands of miles away.

their milk comes from.

Worst thing about farming: Realising how little people know

or understand about farming.

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