Rising to the new dairy challenges

摘要

Three very different producers made the last three in our Dairy Farmer of the Year Award. Philip Clarke reports. When it comes to climbing the farming ladder, few can have made such a spectacular ascent as Welsh Borders farmer Martin Evans. Leaving school at 16, he started off renting a small piggery and rearing pigs for a local butcher. He then bought a mower and, borrowing his Dad's tractor, added contract mowing to his farming portfolio. A year later, in 1985, he bought his own tractor and a forager, offering a full silaging service.