6.35pm - Thursday 14th September 2023 8,777

If you have been following the saga of the barley this year it was a really dirty field that just needed tidying up, so we put in winter barley the winter barley was ravaged by rabbits and slugs. This was totally our fault. Then we direct drilled spring barley on top this it grew well but then the unpredictable weather took its toll and it all ended up on the floor. Bearing all this in mind we decided to whole crop. This way we weren’t just relying on what would have been a poor yield. This was just an experiment and the way to clean up the field, it was four and a bit acres next year we Will put in 25 acres. Hope it’s wrapped up enough must find some more tires. Thanks for watching. Love you long time 

in 2009 i had no experience of farming or the realities that came with it. That soon changed when I met my other half Roy, I had a job as a carer and in every spare moment threw myself into farming. I had only ever driven a Nissan Micra and had experience with horses, I learnt the hard way as nobody had the time to show me and soon after arriving I found myself mothering on calves to three quarter bred limmy cows. We spent every available moment on the farm between our day jobs. Fast forward to 2016 two children later we moved into our very own farm overlooking the northern Pennines, Laitha.

we are in a transitional period at present and will finally be milking cows and making the final switch later this year, after years of planning and implementing infrastructure we will be milking 120 Jersey cows on two Lely robots. This will be a huge change and a steep learning curve

I will be taking you all along for the ride so hit that subscribe button and see you every other day for farming vlogs.

I am overjoyed to be a farmer. I feel so fortunate every day to wake up and do what I love and even better share it with the world and hope it inspires more young people from Preston to spread their wings and think outside the box the world doesn’t need more childcare workers or hairdressers it needs more farmers.

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