It all began with my dad having a hernia operation, which meant I would be running the yard, and that was not really a big deal.
In a new series for Farmers Guardian, the 11 new recruits on the McDonald’s Progressive Young Farmer (PYF) programme. Each month we follow one of the PYF’s to see what they are doing.
I was writing my last piece just as I had finished evening milking at the start of our once-a-day milking for two months.
Geoff Sansome is head of agriculture at Natural England.