The Farmers Mart Oct-Nov 2018 - Issue 59 | Page 35

• OCT/NOV 2018 HALFPENNY HOUSE FARM 35 76467 - Walter Dawson & Sons - 8th.pdf 1 09/10/2018 10:42:41 Accounting and tax solutions for agriculture C M Y 75688 - MMetcalfeandSons - 16TH.pdf 1 10/09/2018 11:23:20 York House, Market Place, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5AT www.walterdawson.co.uk T: 01969 623636 | E: [email protected] M Metcalfe & Sons Agricultural Contractors C M Y CM CM MY MY CY CMY K CY Proud to be associated with Bob Dixon of Half Penny House All agricultural contracting services available with high output modern machinery Complete Silage Operation Grass / Whole-crop / Maize • Combining Manure Spreading • Ploughing • Combination Drilling • Big Square Baling • Bale Wrapping • Maize Drilling • Slurry Spreading Injecting & Dribble Bar • Min-til Cultivating • Vaderstad Drilling Grassland Aerating • Stone Collector • Excavator & Dozer Work M Metcalfe & Sons are pleased to support Bob Dixon & wish him success in the future. SILVER HILL FARM, TUNSTALL, RICHMOND, NORTH YORKSHIRE, DL10 7RF CMY Call us today on: K 01748 833537 / 833575 WILF 07720 468838 MARTIN 07720 468839 CHARLES 07720 468840 www.mmetcalfeandsons.co.uk lot better lamb up on the moor when it is a single.’ Lamb production at Halfpenny is around 1200 per year of which Bob keeps around 300 pures as replacements. ‘We will sell around 150 Swaledale three- crops in Hawes and Leyburn and up to 200 gimmers which I don’t need to other breeders. Most of the rest will go to Marks & Spencer and we get them to around 42 kilos as M&S need them between 16-21 kilos. Last year we had 430 into them. We’ve been with them eight years and are one of 45 participating members. Any remainder go into Leyburn mart where I’m a director. Our Swaledale lambs won’t start to go to market until the first week in January.’ ‘On the cattle side I look towards getting my 13-14 month old stores in to Leyburn where I have two good regular buyers Rob Marwood of Studdah and Brian Philips from Northallerton. We’ve had cattle on the farm all my life and milked cows here until 1972.’ Bob is very much part of the Wensley- dale community either through farming or sport. He was an enthusiastic young stock judging man in his young farmers club days and is now vice president of Lower Wensleydale YFC; he played loose head 75795 - RiponFarmServices - 8TH.pdf 1 11/09/2018 12:24:19 Farmers Mart - Bob.qxp_Layout 1 22/09/2018 14:01 Page 1 W. E. JAMESON & SON LTD MASHAM HG4 4EL Proud to supply BOB DIXON at Halfpenny House C M • Compound Feeds • Specialist Blends • Minerals, Blocks & Buckets • Milk Powders • Silage Additive • Animal Health • Hardware • Grass seed • Forage seed • Environmental • Grassland herbicides • Fertilisers Call us on 01765 689666 ANIMAL FEEDS • ANIMAL HEALTH • SEEDS • FERTILISERS Y CM MY CY CMY K Proud suppliers to the Dixon family wishing them continued success