"We
always used to say, seven months winter, five months bad weather
and on a windy day the crow would fly backwards.The old farmers
used to say If you can farm in Halifax , you can farm anywhere."
He moved with his wife & daughters to Trelech in 1969 and
used to love farming. But he believes that the pleasure went
out of it with the pressure put on farmers by the milk companies
and supermarkets from the 1980's :
"With the dairy cow in the present day, she's not an animal
anymore, she's just a machine and we have to maintain her. If
we don't maintain her, she breaks down on us. I think that is
the downfall of the way we are farming today." |
