Riding out the storm
THE joy of watching our cattle is tempered by a gnawing unease in the pit of my stomach. The continuing crisis in the beef market is concentrating minds. The bullish farmers for whom normally ‘every egg is a double yoker’ are some of the worst affected. We are all looking out for each other: greetings are suffixed with ‘Are you OK?’, a question loaded with the knowledge that, in the UK, one farmer a week is
