The Farmers Mart Jun/Jul 2016 - Issue 46 | Page 59

Stoupe Brow Cottage Farm THE YORKSHIRE COAST BRANCH IS PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH WILL & SYLVIA TERRY Taking the time to offer you attentive, personal, local service for your insurance, pensions and investments. Call 01723 585307 for a quote or pop in Yorkshire Coast Branch, 1 Manor Court, Manor Garth, Scarborough, YO11 3TU Our agents are appointed representatives for general insurance products and introducer appointed representatives for life, pensions and investments of NFU Mutual. Our staff introduce to NFU Mutual for life, pensions and investments. NFU Mutual is The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited (No. 111982). Registered in England. Registered Office: Tiddington Road, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire CV37 7BJ. Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and by the Prudential Regulation Authority. For security and training purposes, telephone calls may be recorded and monitored. to get to a herd of around 20 quality suckler cows in order to give enough for meat and selling breeding stock. We’ve five Shorthorns and eight black Galloway cows at the moment. Sylvia is very keen on the cattle. We just didn’t want to have all our eggs in one basket and that’s what it has seemed with the sheep.” Sylvia comes from York originally but moved to Saltburn by the Sea when she was 10 years old. Her speciality is horses. “I rode before I could walk!” she says. “My mother used to take me riding when I was just four years old. I met Will when out hunting with the Staintondale Hunt. I used to have a little riding school. Today I breed sports horses, particularly for dressage. I have two dressage horses at the moment that have both had foals this time. The dressage route happened by accident. Someone dropped out of a competition and I had a horse called Pythagoras that I was asked to enter and we won!” Will’s NFU involvement is not something he has pursued out of political ambition. He simply wants to help his fellow farmers and growers. “It’s particularly tough at the moment if you’re milking cows twice a day and unable to sell at a sensible price. There are a lot of exterior pressures but in the long term, I hope that what we’re going through presently with deflated prices will be a blip. As farmers we’re producing food for an expanding population.” Will and Sylvia have a daughter Marion (17). One of Will’s two elder brothers, Bob tragically lost his life four years ago as a result of a brain tumour. He was a research scientist. His remaining brother, Justin is a specialist weaver and dress designer based in Cumbria. Agricultural Consultancy & Agrochemical Supply Pleased to be associated with Will & Silvia Terry, Stoupe Brow Farm, Ravenscar THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT Yorkshire Arable Marketing Ltd Telephone [phone]  |  Fax [phone]  |  E: [email protected] www.yam.uk.com www.farmers-mart.co.uk Jun/Jul 2016 59