In 2017 we decided this was the time to get back into farming.
We applied for a leader Grant which was accepted and probably we wouldn’t have done the project without this money, so a big thank you to leader.
We decided that organic was the way to go and we were very lucky to time it right and get a milk contract from OMSCO. We converted our land over the next two years. We bought in 95 yearling heifers to convert with the land; these heifers were a mixture of 20 jerseys, 20 Fleckvieh x Swedish Red x Friesian and 55 Holstein X Friesian.
We chose to go autumn block calving again and install 2 x second-hand DeLaval VMS.