The Farmers Mart Spring 2017 - Issue 50 | Page 18

New Hall Farm Ripon Farm Services are proud suppliers to Richard Haigh of New Hall Farm Granville Ellis AGRICULTURAL & HAULAGE CONTRACTOR Proud to be associated with Richard Haigh of New Hall Farm Tel: [phone] | Mob: [phone] Littlethorpe Farm, Fall Lane, Hartshead, Liversedge, WF15 8AT Hedging + Cultivation Work Grass Drilling Foraging Grass + Maize Rear Discharge Muck Spreaders Round + Square Baling & Wrapping Dribble Bar Unbillical + Tankers + Bobcat Loading Shovels + Spreaders + Trailer Hire 'Proud to be associated with Richard Haigh and wish him luck in the future' Copley Spring Farm, East Bierley, Bradford [email protected] Mobile: [phone] Livestock Auctions • Fur & Feather Auctions Horse & Tack Auctions Holmfirth Auction Mart is proud to be associated with Richard Haigh of New Hall Farm and wish them continued success Tel: [phone] Email: [email protected] Holmfirth Attested Auction Market Ltd, Riverside, Woodhead Road, Holmfirth HD9 2PR www.holmfirthmart.co.uk 18 Spring 2017 www.farmers-mart.co.uk have about 80 Galloways and Belted Galloway. We take them through to 36-38 months and they are all grass fed the traditional way. We buy what is right for the job and that for us is mainly heifers. If we don’t have any fat cattle of our own just right we will buy at Selby livestock market on a Wednesday. ‘Beef is our biggest volume sale and we kill out around 16-17 every week rising to 20-25 at Christmas. We use Worsley’s wholesale butchers in Spenborough for killing out of cattle; Ralph Wood at Scammonden for lambs; and John Penny at Rawdon for pigs. Fat lambs are bought at Holmfirth livestock market and fat pigs at Selby. We also buy stock at Wharfedale Farmers Auction Market at Otley and CCM in Skipton.’ The addition of Cockley Hill Farm has brought the Haigh’s into corn growing with drying and storage facilities. ‘We use the corn on the cattle and Charles plans on growing more this year. He also ploughs, drills and combines. We use contractors for round baling.’ WILDLIFE FLOURISH HERE Richard proudly picked up the Tye Trophy award from the Yorkshire Agricultural Society last year for West & South Yorkshire. It’s another feather in his cap. ‘This is an ideal farm for encouraging wildlife. We’ve planted a couple of miles of new hedgerows and a lot of trees. We’ve created woodland on what was rough land and put in five ponds. We have kingfishers, swallows, wild ducks, plenty more hedgerow wildlife and birds. It’s a great thing for me as I love the countryside. We also have a shoot on the farm and have a meet for the Rockwood Harriers.’ While Richard’s dream of farming to the extent he does today may have exceeded his expectations, he is quick to point out that it would never have come about without the realisation that he had to move away from his first love. ‘I would never have done this without the meat trade, the chest freezer boom and Haigh’s Farm Shop. We work very hard, all of us, and fortunately we have now brought about something really special. Catherine and I are also very fortunate to be able to have built a lovely family. We have eight grandchildren.’