Nicola Wordie
Calves and lambs are arriving thick and fast and it's that time of year when every check around the yard brings a mix of anticipation and mild panic – but thankfully, the weather has been in our favour....
Nicola Wordie
Calves and lambs are arriving thick and fast and it's that time of year when every check around the yard brings a mix of anticipation and mild panic – but thankfully, the weather has been in our favour....
Nicola is a third-generation farmer from Aberdeenshire. Alongside her dad, George, she farms 560 hectares (1,400 acres) with 240 Simmental-cross suckler cows and 1,000 Scotch Mule ewes and a small acreage of spring barley, forage rape and neeps to feed the livestock. She is also known as @livestock_farmher on social media where she gives her view of farming life
Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) and is chair of RABI Monmouthshire
Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops