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When our 2025 Contractor of the Year, Neil Fell, started his sheep-dipping business, the family farm, based near Durham, was going through several changes. Initially a…
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Father-and-son duo David and Richard Budd operate Stevens Farm (Hawkhurst), which was established by Richard’s great-grandparents during the Second World War. It originally began as a…
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Sheep-dipping business helps fight scab
0When our 2025 Contractor of the Year, Neil Fell, started his sheep-dipping business, the family farm, based near Durham, was going through several changes. Initially a dairy farm milking 170 Holsteins, the family decided to switch to rearing bull calves after the foot-and-mouth crisis and have since converted the farm to a bed-and-breakfast pig unit holding 1,100 animals, with plans to increase this to 2,000. “We’ve struggled with maintaining investment and developing the business due to our scale,” Neil explains. “If you’re not moving forward, you’re standing still, so we’ve had to rethink how we do things. We contracted out…