Thorntree Farm
AGRICULTURAL DEALERS & ENGINEERS
Sell, repair & service a large variety of farm machinery, tractors & agricultural accessories.
As a Family run business we pride ourselves on the level of service we offer to our customers.
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McCormick Tractors We are the dealer principle in South, West Yorkshire areas
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Cowley House, Queens Square Business Park, Holmfirth, Honley, West Yorkshire HD9 6QZ
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Young farmers- doing it with love
On a fresh Friday afternoon in November Ian Wilkinson met two young farmers full of passion for their animals, farming and one another!
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TANYA CAMPEY AND Stuart Earnshaw have been farming at Thorntree Farm, Walton near Wakefield for just six years, but Stuart has always been involved in farming from childhood working on his parents farm in Sherburn. Stuart was always keen to get involved and learn farming, so much so that on leaving school he moved in with his grandmother at Thorntree Farm who at the time was managing a small herd of 12 Simmental’ s. He went to Askam Bryan College one day a week and supplemented his income working on other farms, something he had been doing since school.
In December 2012 a chance meeting in an Ackworth pub on Boxing Day really set the wheels in motion for his very close working partnership with Tanya. Stuart met vivacious Tanya who was a hairdresser. Very much a tom boy her boss at the time nicknamed her“ Tan the Man”!
Stuart and Tanya got on famously from day one with Tanya very quickly getting involved with the farm and in particular, with the Thorntree Herd. Sadly, Stuart’ s grandmother passed away in March 2011 and although she left him the farm, there wasn’ t a penny left otherwise. Tanya was getting more and more involved with the farm and with Stuart so in the July she moved which then enabled them both to work on the farm, alongside Tanya’ s hairdressing and Stuart’ s outside contracting.
Tanya was no stranger to animals as she had always had a love of horses and was also a pretty fearless rider which inevitably led to a few spills! Earlier this year she managed to dislocate her knee, and freely admits to being a bit of a charger! Indeed, not long after she had moved in Tanya had a bad fall and severely damaged her coccyx which meant she was unable to ride or drive which meant she was confined to the farm.
BONDING WITH‘ THE GIRLS’
However, every cloud as they say – the couple had decided to expand the herd but really needed someone on farm all the time to manage things properly. So while Stuart was working on one other farm harvesting and spraying potatoes, Tanya was forming a close bond with“ the girls” as she calls them. Another amusing fact is that initially she used to wear glasses and the cows for some reason did not like them and shied away – so that was it! Contact lenses were purchased. For all Tanya likes to get stuck in on the farm, her years in the beauty business
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