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Young Farmer Focus - Robert Crank: "It is a full family effort to get milking finished in time for a dinner dance"

Young Farmer Focus

Young Farmer Focus - Robert Crank: "It is a full family effort to get milking finished in time for a dinner dance"

Robert Crank, 24, is a dairy farmer in Ince, Cheshire, and discusses working collaboratively with his family as well as his role in Beeston and Cheshire Young Farmers' Clubs

clock 10 September 2025 • 2 min read
In your field - Emma Robinson: "He had been a farmer all his life and loved it and was still driving the combine into his late 80s"

In your field

In your field - Emma Robinson: "He had been a farmer all his life and loved it and was still driving the combine into his late 80s"

Emma and her family farm in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, milking 100 pedigree Holsteins and selling raw milk from the farmgate. They also run 300 North Country Mules. Emma is Monmouthshire NFU chair and volunteers with the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

clock 06 September 2025 • 2 min read
In your field - Amy Wilkinson: "I could tell you all about the traumatic ordeal but the last thing you need is to hear how hard the job is, so I am sticking to the good stuff"

In your field

In your field - Amy Wilkinson: "I could tell you all about the traumatic ordeal but the last thing you need is to hear how hard the job is, so I am sticking to the good stuff"

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

clock 23 August 2025 • 2 min read
Warwickshire family champions Simmental cattle after 50 years of pedigree breeding

Beef

Warwickshire family champions Simmental cattle after 50 years of pedigree breeding

Four generations of the Evans family have been involved with the Wroxall herd of pedigree Simmentals which was established in the 1960s

clock 04 August 2025 • 5 min read
In your field: James Wright - "There may still be hope that the family farm tax, might yet be reversed"

In your field

In your field: James Wright - "There may still be hope that the family farm tax, might yet be reversed"

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm.

clock 06 July 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: Kate Rowell - "Huge respect to all those farming in remote areas and thank you for welcoming us soft mainlanders when we visit"

In your field

In your field: Kate Rowell - "Huge respect to all those farming in remote areas and thank you for welcoming us soft mainlanders when we visit"

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

clock 15 June 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "I ran after the cattle through brambles and rhododendron bushes for hours"

In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "I ran after the cattle through brambles and rhododendron bushes for hours"

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

clock 14 June 2025 • 4 min read
#Farm24 Ambassador: Rossett Park Farming

Farm24

#Farm24 Ambassador: Rossett Park Farming

Introducing #Farm24 2025 ambassadors, brothers and organic dairy farmers, George and Will Tomlinson

clock 05 June 2025 • 1 min read
In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Thank you to Nanny for helping me in my hour of need"

In your field

In your field: Amy Wilkinson - "Thank you to Nanny for helping me in my hour of need"

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

clock 12 May 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Maybe we'd all feel a bit less stressed if we farmed to live, not the other way round"

In your field

In your field: James and Isobel Wright - "Maybe we'd all feel a bit less stressed if we farmed to live, not the other way round"

James and Isobel, with their two young children, recently bought their first farm, and plan to run beef and sheep over 13.8 hectares (34 acres), renting a further 44.5ha (110 acres). James works for tech firm Breedr as a product manager. You can follow them on Twitter @jpbwfarm.

clock 26 April 2025 • 2 min read