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At this time of great change, we can look to the future of farming and our countryside with hope.

Sales season is in full swing and it is great to be experiencing some of the best trading conditions that I can remember.

Over the past few months that I have been writing in this section, I have mentioned several times what lovely regular customers we have and I am sure most farms which sell direct to consumers will say the same.

Unfortunately, due to the current situation, we had to cancel all our on-farm courses this year but, as the saying goes, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade or even better, make cider.

The recent dry weather has been a godsend. Combines have been flat out here in the North West over the last two weeks. Grass silage harvesting has been equally as busy and we noticed the drills are coming out.

It is that time of year again when there is intense tension between the agricultural community desperate to reduce bovine TB and those that seek to protect badgers.

The rollercoaster that is 2020 has changed again very quickly.

Kids are back at school, the nights are really drawing in and, thankfully, we’ve finished harvest.

Christopher Murley farms in partnership with his two brothers and parents at two neighbouring farms on the western tip of Cornwall. Higher Bojewyan farm has 180 autumn-calving pedigree Jerseys and Levant farm runs 120 spring-calving cows on the 370-acre mostly grass enterprise.

Resilience seems a popular word recently. Looking it up on Google tells me it means ‘the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness’. I quite like that and to me it sums up farming.