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EDITOR’S INTRO
Welcome to you all to the
June/July issue of Farmers
Mart, we have published
this slightly later than
normal due to the current
situation. Certainly, things now
seem to be heading back to normal. Many
businesses I have spoken to have had a very
hectic time during lockdown and continue
to be busy now lockdown has eased.
FARM shops and online meat businesses
have been doing very well. In
this issue read about Tom Kitchen Dunn
of Lamb2ewe in Honley Huddersfield, a
new business doing exceptionally well
and a competitor on Dragons’ Den!
Chris Berry has been to see Dean
Hullah at Tancred Farm shop which
continues to do very well.
In the September issue there will be
a further piece on Headingley Farmers
Market which should be fully back
open by then.
There is an interesting piece on
Diversification, Hollin House farm in
Clayton West where they bottle their
fantastic creamy milk and make their
own cheese. You can also buy it at
Lamb2ewe!
From our September issue we are
beginning our spotlight on Women in
agriculture. I am looking to do features
on our ladies in farming, you can be
new to farming or have well established
businessess. I think women could be
recognized much more than they
currently are, I have come across a lot
of very entrepreneurial women. I’m
also keen to focus on the many female
graduates leaving college and starting
farming. I know there are a lot of young
‘ From our September
issue we are
beginning our
spotlight on Women
in agriculture’
female farmers achieving fantastic
results at college and afterwards.
Chris Berry recently went to see
Dave Rawlings of Priory Farm near
Wetherby. Dave is an absolute master
of diversification, not only having a
large arable operation, he produces his
now legendary Priory Vodka and Gin,
has a wedding venue and has recently
opened an art gallery!
Chris has also been to Ben Spence
of Home Farm in Aysgarth, another
champion of diversification. Under the
name of The Home Farmer Ben has a
mobile milk vending and dispensing van
that travels round various dales villages
supplying both milk and cheese.
That’s about all for now, enjoy the
rest of the magazine and the many
more interesting and hardworking
farms we have featured
Ian Wilkinson, Owner
JUN/JUL 2020 • farmers-mart.co.uk
LINCOLN REDS
HIT 125 NOT OUT
Chris Berry talks with society president, Chris Page.
THE Lincoln Red is one of
the most distinctive native,
heritage breeds of cattle.
Its origins lie a little further
north as the Durham and
Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls
helped create the breed
when they were put on
to the large, rugged Old
Lincolnshire shorthorned
draught cows two centuries
ago.
Yorkshire maintains
an important role in the
breed with a number
of herds and currently
East Riding breeder and
showman Chris Page of
Oak Tree Farm in Newport
near Brough is society
president. His Foulness
herd is extremely well
respected.
‘I’m very privileged to
have taken on the role,’
says Chris. ‘I’m now in my
second year, but more
importantly this is the 125th
anniversary of the Lincoln
Red Cattle Society.’
‘I came into the breed 10
years ago when I purchased
four in-calf heifers
from Mr Hedley Needler of
Caistor whose Walmer herd
is one of the most noted
Lincoln Red herds in the
UK. He’s now 101 years old
and still going strong. His
father started the herd in
the 1920s.
‘Lincoln Reds have always
been fantastic at converting
grass and the cows are
wonderful mothers, but it
was the work by the society
on growth and shape that
attracted me.’
‘They now have even
more shape and are
fantastically well fleshed.
They have what most
in the trade like to call a
square body with a leg
at each corner. Lincoln
Reds have always been
pleasing on the eye, but
now they have everything
else going in their favour.
They are what people say
are a good, catchy breed
and quiet, that is great for
putting to either a pedigree
Lincoln Red bull or a
good quality X.’
ISSUE 69 • JUN/JUL 2020
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