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Swaledales and followers up here and down on the other two farms we have Mule ewes, Blue Faced Leicester pedigrees and pedigree Texels. Our stocking level is around 1,700 ewes and followers, producing upwards of 300 Mule gimmer lambs a year. We have 550 Swaledale ewes on the 770 acres at Yore.
“ The only sheep purchases we make are tups( and Jim and the boys were on with that when I visited in October) and we buy from Kirkby Stephen, Hawes and St John’ s Chapel. We sell tups in Hawes and Kirkby Stephen. We’ ve had a tup shearling that made £ 7,000.”
Jim gives an indication of what the weather is like and what his sheep endure at Yore House.
“ It is all rough grazing scrub here with most of our land peaty and if we get 70 inches of rain a year that’ s a dry one. We can get over 100 inches and the way it’ s been looking recently we might be on to that again!”
The Pedleys also have a small suckler herd of 20 cows, all commercials, and take in upwards of 50 heifers from local farms for the winter on a bed and breakfast basis.
Moorcock Show takes place every September and this year’ s saw it celebrate its 100th show. It holds a special place in the hearts of the Pedley family. Jim has been on the committee since he was 15 years old and has now served on it for 46 years. He was chairman for 10 years before handing over the reins to John Bland who farms opposite the showground that moved from being alongside the pub to Mossdale, a mite nearer Hawes on land owned by the van Cutsem family a number of years ago on account of a royal visit.“ Hugh van Cutsem was good friends with HRH The
Prince of Wales, Prince Charles and when Hugh told us Charles was coming to our little show 30 years ago it was decided to move it. We’ d always held it next to our farm and my first memory of the show had been that it used to be in our pasture near the pub but more room was needed so it went to Mossdale. It wasn’ t an official visit but that didn’ t matter. We had royalty coming to our show. Everyone was very excited and all the committee met him for drinks before the show started.“ It was a fabulous day and Sylvia Caygill our show secretary at the time recorded that gate money increased from £ 61 the previous year on what had been admittedly a wet day to £ 3,000 that day! We’ ve never reached that figure again. Last year we got to £ 1,300 and this year’ s centenary show bettered that.”
Liz recalls a conversation she had with Prince Charles.
Proud to be associated with Jim Pedley of Yore House Tel: 01833 650516 | Email: jstephenson @ swaledale-sheep. com
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