The Farmers Mart Feb/Mar 2014 - Issue 32 | Page 20
WALLIS GRANGE FARM
Potato man of
the Wolds
Chris Berry talks with Andrew
Soanes of Kiplingcotes.
How many farming
operations do you know
that have grown from
owning just 60 acres to
3,000? It is phenomenal
growth in anyone’s
book. Andrew Soanes
is the man at the helm
having originally begun
purchasing land with his
father, Clive, 35 years ago.
Andrew lives at Wallis
Grange Farm, Kiplingcotes
in the Yorkshire Wolds from
where he runs a farming
operation that now covers
5,000 acres when adding
various other contract farming
arrangements.
“We have a small poultry
processing factory at Church
Hill Farm in Middleton-onthe-Wolds where we farmed
originally. That made the profits
in the early days that allowed
us to keep buying land.” he
explained.
‘Very keen
arable farmers’
‘My father and I were very
keen arable farmers and
purchased land around North
Frodingham to the coast and
towards Wetwang, Middletonon-the-Wolds and here at
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