Autumn on the farm is always a chaotic time with seasonal breeding sheep sales across the North West taking precedent most weekdays and weekends. BUT the arrival of our first ever litter of border collie puppies ensured it was going to be much more hectic than normal! As a child, I yearned for puppies, but […]
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Unsurprisingly for a sheep farmers daughter, Love Lamb Week is my favourite campaign in the farming calendar – here’s why
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I’m incredibly proud to be a part of the British farming industry. But I am less proud of our health and safety record…
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*Warning graphic content*
It has happened again. There has been yet another dog attach on a sheep.
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It is no secret that my grandad is my role model and inspiration – at 90 years old, he continues to farm every single day and shows no signs of retirement any time soon!
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Yesterday the BBC Breakfast team visited our farm to learn about how the prolonged period of dry weather is effecting farmers (in particular livestock farmers) across the country.
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When Lorna dropped me a message one evening asking if I would review her latest book ‘Till the cows come home’ on my blog, I was delighted (and a little bit flabbergast!) to accept.
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