In a blog for Farmers Guardian, shepherdess and top dog trialler Emma Gray talks organic lamb and the drama at the Scottish National sheepdog trials
This week from Farmers Guardian head of news and business Alex Black
Farming 122 hectares (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on-site from their orchards. Kate is a mum of two, runs Kate’s Country School on-farm and is the woodland creation officer for Stump Up For Trees
The big story since I last wrote has to be the decline in the number of dairy farmers. Just to put it into some sort of perspective, when we started First Milk I think we had 3,500 members