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Anyhow aside from that hilarious five minutes where I busted two star crossed lovers down the lane we did a lot more hedge planting, I want this done asap so we can get onto laying the hedges which is a lot more time consuming, cattle get a muck out and freshen up. Bobcat comes into its own with the big bucket on after using the mini merlo in the shed and deciding it’s MASSIVE and not as agile, the bobcat will always have a place here. I think in the long run we will probably get rid of the big s250 and keep the smaller s160 beast to run around the farm with, I’m a fan of the s250 but Roy has always been used to something smaller and more manoeuvrable in tight sheds. Valtra rides shifting more silage as the rams still aren’t back on our Marshall trailer.



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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