Archived News

20th April 2009

Yes I know, it's been an age since I last wrote!  When I created this website there was certainly plenty of farm news, especially in the summer of 2007 and I often found myself writing these pages late at night. Almost two years on, farm and family life have become ever-more busy, if that were possible, and there’s barely time to sleep let alone write about life!

To cope with reduced income across the farming sector, farmers who previously diversified into farm shops and renting out converted barns as office space, are now feeling the effects of the credit crunch.  Office space sits empty and consumers are tightening their belts.  Back on the farm, the cost of producing a litre of milk still exceeds the price paid to dairy farmers, and the grain price is down after last year’s brief rise, so there is a squeeze from both ends of a diversified farm enterprise.   However Laurence summarised that farming is not suffering from the recession as badly as other industries have been over the past few months.

Christopher and Georege watched the interview from prime position up on the Matbro and then Christopher got behind the camera!

Young cameraman of the year?

For Geoge, looking through the lens brought a WOW! So a huge thank you to Peter Kendall for letting the boys experience the weight of the camera.

I have continued to work on three new information panels which I will use for school groups visiting the farm.  The themes are: crops, farming family, and conservation and cattle.  The design is almost complete and I am hopeful that the final pop-up panels will be here in time for some of our summer school groups.

One of our Galloways went for slaughter last month and has been hanging at the butcher’s for over three weeks.  On Thursday I will be wrapping, labelling and boxing the beef ready for collection by our customers on Friday.