Coleg Powys Pay Us A Visit

A Beautiful crisp, frosty and icy morning.

Coleg Powys year three agricultural students have just paid us a visit, they are doing their unit on diversification.
This is now the fourth year that they and their tutor Nigel Barrat have been using us as a role model for a Farm diversification.

We started off in the cattle shed talking about how and when we started, and how we have much more control over our business as it is not totally dependent on live stock auction prices or abattoir prices, and how we have to be able to adjust our business to accommodate ever changing events, such as lamb prices up or down etc.

We then go to the butchers shop where Philip explains how we add value to Lambs and Cattle. This is the area which amazes them the most. Like many farmers they probably take their stock direct to abattoir or to livestock markets and the price they get for them dose not comp[are to the retail price. although I have to say that this year the lamb price has held up much better, possibly due to a smaller amount of lamb being available as more and more farmers leave the business every day.

Finally, after a coffee, we have a brief visit to my office, which amazingly for some of them is not a biscuit tin on the kitchen table but a nerve centre of the business (or so i like to think!).

After my recent course I hope I have inspired them as to how important it is to step back and have a good look at what you are doing take time to leave the dance floor and view everything from the balcony - go on give it a try........