The Farmers Mart Jun-Jul 2019 - Issue 63 | Page 43
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• JUN/JUL 2019
about hard work today. Back then they
worked with horses and there was far more
manual labour and their dad, my granddad
was a good horseman. The milk would be
taken by churn on a wagon to Clapham
railway station where it went to Rowntrees
in York. If they had enough milk already it
would be sent back on the train the next
day for them to throw away. Today we just
have a tanker come to pick it up, take it to
Arla and that’s the last we see of it.’
John believes renewable energy and
tourism are the possible growth areas for
the farm and others in the area. ‘We recycle
water quite a lot already, we have LED lights
and we are looking into heat retention for
the dairy to provide warm water. Costs of
capital investment are quite high, but we
will consider anything to continue farming
here into the next generations. It’s fabulous
William wants to work here and Judith and I
will do everything we can to help him.’
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