6.37pm - Friday 2nd June 2023 5,828

Road trip to see ​⁠ and John Deere mick (he has well and truly earnt this title trust me) joe got a new wagon back on his livestock carrier from the snazziest factory I’ve ever seen! We went for a ratch about nwa (north west auctions) Kendal junction 36 loads of stuff in the machinery sale for us to have a gander at as nosey farmers on tour, quick stop in at cornthwaites who have the biggest lineup of John Deeres anywhere. I found me a Valtra but gutted I missed the little David brown the other side of the fence 😖 Rufus spotted a new Holland so he was happy, all sorts of goodies today for the tractor obsessed out of you! We were silly no I won’t apologise I hope it annoys the YouTube haters 😂😂😂

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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