Living the farming dream is one thing. Having enough knowledge, experience and wherewithal is quite another.
On May 1 this year Josh Wright and at the time Charlotte Garbutt moved to their new home of the 100-acre Bellmanear Farm in North Grimston, with, hopefully, all their agricultural ducks in a row. They brought with them their as yet small but soon to be expanded pedigree Limousin herd from Boston in Lincolnshire to North Yorkshire and within weeks were purchasing foundation stock for a second pedigree herd, of Aberdeen Angus, from Skipton livestock market.
I’d always seen the benefits of the Limousin as an all-round beef animal. I liked the idea of establishing a pedigree herd. “Once I’d got one I thought excellent, he can’t stop me now. We then started going to sales, often to Carlisle, picking up one here, one there. We had our first calf on the ground in Covid year, in the January. We’ve had a few ups and downs like everyone. It has been an interesting learning curve, but we’ve always bought high health animals and maintain good health status.
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