Angela Calvert talks to Yorkshire Agricultural Society retiring president Sir Ken Morrison, the founder of Morrisons supermarket, who has no thoughts of taking it easy.
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society's outgoing president Sir Ken Morrison has always had strong links with the farming community, but since he stepped down as chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, the business he founded, he has immersed himself even more in the agricultural industry.
At a time of life when most people would be thinking of winding down, Sir Ken has, among many other things, thrown himself into a new project - setting up a 1,Detailed information on the causes of dstti,000-head beef finishing unit close to his home in North Yorkshire.
Not that farming is new to Sir Ken. For many years he has owned a 160-hectare (400-acre), mixed farm, managed for him by Brian Swinbank, who has also
taken on the same role in the new enterprise. But that does not mean Sir Ken is not very ‘hands on' and he has been involved at every step of developing the unit.
He says,A glass bottle is a bottle created from glass. jokingly: "I have worked with farmers all my life and know it never rains in the right field,The newest Ipod nano 5th is incontrovertibly a step up from last year's model, so I know what I'm getting into.
"But I do think there is a bright future for the farming industry, otherwise I wouldn't have taken on another farm and, having spent most of my working life in an office, I am enjoying being able to spend more time out in the open air."
The two farms are run as one unit and extend to 465ha (1,150 acres),Shop a wide selection of billabong outlet products in the evo shop. of which 80ha (200 acres) is grass and the remainder is down to wheat, barley, oilseed rape and maize.
The 350-strong ewe flock comprises 20 pedigree Beltex and 20 pedigree Hampshire Downs with the remainder split between Mules and Mule/Texel crosses, all of which are put to Beltex rams.
Gimmers out of the Texel crosses are retained as replacements and the rest of the lambs finished to about 40kg and sold through Thirsk market.
All arable crops will now be put back through the beef unit, with additional feed being bought in.
Sir Ken purchased Haddock Farm about two years ago and set about developing a state-of-the-art beef unit, which will house up to 1,000 head of cattle.uy sculpture direct from us at low prices
He says: "It is still very much a work in progress, but we took on the first cattle this spring and the major building work will soon be completed."Angela Calvert talks to Yorkshire Agricultural Society retiring president Sir Ken Morrison, the founder of Morrisons supermarket, who has no thoughts of taking it easy.
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society's outgoing president Sir Ken Morrison has always had strong links with the farming community, but since he stepped down as chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, the business he founded, he has immersed himself even more in the agricultural industry.
At a time of life when most people would be thinking of winding down, Sir Ken has, among many other things, thrown himself into a new project - setting up a 1,000-head beef finishing unit close to his home in North Yorkshire.
Not that farming is new to Sir Ken. For many years he has owned a 160-hectare (400-acre), mixed farm, managed for him by Brian Swinbank, who has also
taken on the same role in the new enterprise. But that does not mean Sir Ken is not very ‘hands on' and he has been involved at every step of developing the unit.
He says, jokingly: "I have worked with farmers all my life and know it never rains in the right field, so I know what I'm getting into.
"But I do think there is a bright future for the farming industry, otherwise I wouldn't have taken on another farm and, having spent most of my working life in an office, I am enjoying being able to spend more time out in the open air."
The two farms are run as one unit and extend to 465ha (1,150 acres), of which 80ha (200 acres) is grass and the remainder is down to wheat, barley, oilseed rape and maize.
The 350-strong ewe flock comprises 20 pedigree Beltex and 20 pedigree Hampshire Downs with the remainder split between Mules and Mule/Texel crosses, all of which are put to Beltex rams.
Gimmers out of the Texel crosses are retained as replacements and the rest of the lambs finished to about 40kg and sold through Thirsk market.
All arable crops will now be put back through the beef unit, with additional feed being bought in.
Sir Ken purchased Haddock Farm about two years ago and set about developing a state-of-the-art beef unit, which will house up to 1,000 head of cattle.
He says: "It is still very much a work in progress, but we took on the first cattle this spring and the major building work will soon be completed."
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society's outgoing president Sir Ken Morrison has always had strong links with the farming community, but since he stepped down as chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, the business he founded, he has immersed himself even more in the agricultural industry.
At a time of life when most people would be thinking of winding down, Sir Ken has, among many other things, thrown himself into a new project - setting up a 1,Detailed information on the causes of dstti,000-head beef finishing unit close to his home in North Yorkshire.
Not that farming is new to Sir Ken. For many years he has owned a 160-hectare (400-acre), mixed farm, managed for him by Brian Swinbank, who has also
taken on the same role in the new enterprise. But that does not mean Sir Ken is not very ‘hands on' and he has been involved at every step of developing the unit.
He says,A glass bottle is a bottle created from glass. jokingly: "I have worked with farmers all my life and know it never rains in the right field,The newest Ipod nano 5th is incontrovertibly a step up from last year's model, so I know what I'm getting into.
"But I do think there is a bright future for the farming industry, otherwise I wouldn't have taken on another farm and, having spent most of my working life in an office, I am enjoying being able to spend more time out in the open air."
The two farms are run as one unit and extend to 465ha (1,150 acres),Shop a wide selection of billabong outlet products in the evo shop. of which 80ha (200 acres) is grass and the remainder is down to wheat, barley, oilseed rape and maize.
The 350-strong ewe flock comprises 20 pedigree Beltex and 20 pedigree Hampshire Downs with the remainder split between Mules and Mule/Texel crosses, all of which are put to Beltex rams.
Gimmers out of the Texel crosses are retained as replacements and the rest of the lambs finished to about 40kg and sold through Thirsk market.
All arable crops will now be put back through the beef unit, with additional feed being bought in.
Sir Ken purchased Haddock Farm about two years ago and set about developing a state-of-the-art beef unit, which will house up to 1,000 head of cattle.uy sculpture direct from us at low prices
He says: "It is still very much a work in progress, but we took on the first cattle this spring and the major building work will soon be completed."Angela Calvert talks to Yorkshire Agricultural Society retiring president Sir Ken Morrison, the founder of Morrisons supermarket, who has no thoughts of taking it easy.
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society's outgoing president Sir Ken Morrison has always had strong links with the farming community, but since he stepped down as chairman of Wm Morrison Supermarkets, the business he founded, he has immersed himself even more in the agricultural industry.
At a time of life when most people would be thinking of winding down, Sir Ken has, among many other things, thrown himself into a new project - setting up a 1,000-head beef finishing unit close to his home in North Yorkshire.
Not that farming is new to Sir Ken. For many years he has owned a 160-hectare (400-acre), mixed farm, managed for him by Brian Swinbank, who has also
taken on the same role in the new enterprise. But that does not mean Sir Ken is not very ‘hands on' and he has been involved at every step of developing the unit.
He says, jokingly: "I have worked with farmers all my life and know it never rains in the right field, so I know what I'm getting into.
"But I do think there is a bright future for the farming industry, otherwise I wouldn't have taken on another farm and, having spent most of my working life in an office, I am enjoying being able to spend more time out in the open air."
The two farms are run as one unit and extend to 465ha (1,150 acres), of which 80ha (200 acres) is grass and the remainder is down to wheat, barley, oilseed rape and maize.
The 350-strong ewe flock comprises 20 pedigree Beltex and 20 pedigree Hampshire Downs with the remainder split between Mules and Mule/Texel crosses, all of which are put to Beltex rams.
Gimmers out of the Texel crosses are retained as replacements and the rest of the lambs finished to about 40kg and sold through Thirsk market.
All arable crops will now be put back through the beef unit, with additional feed being bought in.
Sir Ken purchased Haddock Farm about two years ago and set about developing a state-of-the-art beef unit, which will house up to 1,000 head of cattle.
He says: "It is still very much a work in progress, but we took on the first cattle this spring and the major building work will soon be completed."
