CONTENTS 3
• OCT/NOV 2019
14 BRINGING THE FARMING
AND AGRICULTURE
INDUSTRY TOGETHER
Midlands Machinery Show is back for it’s
6th annual event and this year promises to
be the biggest and best yet. See our show
preview from page 14.
20 GIVING BACK TO
THE COMMUNITY
Not just a farm and thriving agricultural
engineering and fabrication business,
North Moor Farm is also home to Tractor
Fest – a new charity event.
20
24 BREXIT READINESS HELPLINE
FOR ORGANIC FARMERS
A support service to help organic
businesses prepare for a potential no-deal
Brexit.
14
26 FABULOUS YEAR FOR
CLIVE’S GRITS & LONKS
One of the sheep showing world’s
characters, Clive Mitchell, talks about a
successful 2019 showing his Derbyshire
Gritstones and Lonks.
38 SWALEDALE BREEDING - IN
THE SHEEP AND THE FAMILY
24
Chris Berry talks with Steven Porter about
his flock of Swaledale sheep, and the local
devastation caused by the storms in late
July.
26
42 GRAND ECO DESIGN
LAUNCHES THE RUSSELL
GROUP’S NEW CUBLEY DEPOT
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The Farmers Mart visit Russell Group’s new
state-of-the-art Cubley depot. Their latest
future-proofing development based in
Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
61 SEVERAL POPULAR QUESTIONS
The Farmers Mart posed several popular
questions to Can–Am which came from
feedback from farmers to which they
were keen to respond.
42
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