Langford Pedigree Rouges
They keep some 200 laying hens and 750 turkeys at Christmas which are all traditionally reared and hand plucked.
John’ s other son, Andrew has established a very successful business as an agricultural engineer, fabricating and helping install new milking parlours right across the country. He does return home to help at Langford from time to time when his busy schedule permits.
What about the ladies in the family? John’ s wife Rachel has run her own highly successful catering business, Country Kitchen for the past 20 years – her motivation and no better grounding was winning WI cook of the year! She works primarily for the farming community doing functions, weddings, buffets and show catering so consequently has time to look after her men but no time to work on the farm. It does provide yet another revenue stream for this prosperous family farm business.
So far as future plans are concerned, John aims to keep things pretty much as they are. He says he has no intention of retiring whilst allowing Richard to make more decisions.
This is clearly a winning team with a keen eye for the farming business and we wish them continued success. www. farmers-mart. co. uk Autumn 2017 81