As a kid I loved farming and, after studying for an HND at Shuttleworth Agricultural College, I started working as grain buyer in the Home Counties. It was a great job, but I had a mission to be a farmer. After a brief spell selling lime, I came up with a plan to become a self-employed grain buyer and lime seller so that I would have time to farm on the side. I took on a few patches of grassland in Hert-fordshire and started buying ewes with lambs at foot to fatten up, keeping back the female lambs to breed from. It soon became clear that sheep were too time consuming to work alongside the day job, so I turned my attention to arable farming.
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