The Farmers Mart Oct/Nov 2016 - Issue 48 | Page 38

Fortshot House Farm Yara liquid fertilizers, committed to your success Yara are happy to support Peter Trickett at Fortshot House Farm with all his fertilizer needs For more information contact: Gavin Ray 07778 342294 [email protected] f Yara UK Ltd @Yara_UK www www.yara.co.uk “We are proud to be Yorkshire-based accountants who deliver quality, cost-effective solutions for our clients” Accounts and Tax Return Preparation • Tax Planning • Business Succession Planning • Payroll Services Management Accounts • Forensic Accounting • Bookkeeping and Software Support • VAT Reporting ‘Pleased to be associated with Peter Trickett of Fortshot House Farm and wish him all the luck for the future’ Eura Audit UK Ripon, Eva Lett House, 1 South Crescent, Ripon, North Yorkshire HG4 1SN Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Eura Audit UK (Ripon) LLP trading as Eura Audit UK Ripon, Registered in England Number OC412908 Registered office: Eva Lett House, 1 South Crescent, Ripon, North Yorkhsire HG4 1SN 38 Oct/Nov 2016 www.farmers-mart.co.uk How grain became king at Fortshot Chris Berry talks with Peter Trickett: West Riding NFU County Chairman »»MAKING BIG DECISIONS about his farming future is nothing new to Peter Trickett of Fortshot Farm, Wike, between Leeds and Harrogate. He presently farms across 1,100 acres of which he owns around 300. Fortshot is tenanted from the Harewood Estate as is land at Mill Farm where Peter’s family once lived, other land is tenanted on either FBTs (farm business tenancies) and there are contract farming agreements. Decisions came thick and fast nearly two decades ago. It is now 18 years since the pig herd was dispersed, 17 years since the dairy herd went, Peter’s brother Simon called time on his own farming career and Peter became purely an arable farmer. It was quite a change. Decisions have also been coming lately, both with his NFU hat on and at home. Since February last year Peter has been West Riding National Farmers Union county chairman, has his own views on Brexit and is looking forward to the next chapter in life at Fortshot when the youngest of his three sons Alastair will join him in the future decision-making process on the direction the farm is heading. Peter will doubtless approach both the aftermath of the Brexit vote and Alastair’s involvement with the same studious eye he took back in the late nineties and has continued to maintain since that time. “My father Michael Trickett was a first generation farmer. He’d read agriculture at Leeds University and after starting work on a neighbouring Harewood Estate farm he was offered the tenancy of Mill Farm in 1959 and gradually built up the farming enterprise that included Mill Farm, Fortshot Farm and Prospect Farm in Dunkeswick. “I’d read microbiology at Leeds University and hadn’t planned on coming into the farm business but it