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A lot of the feedback is from those more removed from farming, living in towns and cities, who have sent supportive messages about the way we farm and how we look after our animals.

Liz Irvine sadly passed away in September and will be sorely missed by her family and friends. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Part 1 . “It was really important to me that the show demonstrated to the public the care and attention farmers pay to their livestock. If you dwell on the bad times too much you’ll go in to a dark place and you hear of farmers all the time suffering with depression, struggling to pull themselves out of it – but there are really happy moments with new life on the farm and those are the times you live for.”, Johnny, Adele and Raymond with their recent purchase from Stirling in October, Coolnaslee Oreo   Ref:RH061119046.

I wanted to give him another chance to see if he would become fertile again, but he was only producing dead semen, so we had to say goodbye to him. We have had broken legs on lambs in the past and I have made them leg braces which have worked well. Raymond continued: “The farming way of life is not an easy choice; you could be getting up one morning and you lose a calf and you’re cursing yourself, but you have to keep going and look after the rest of your stock. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here. It is a lean meat which is becoming popular here and it doesn’t give off a smell which puts so many people of lamb. We have tried the meat over in Switzerland and it is delicious. ©Copyright 2001-2020.

These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. A Gannett Company. If we were caught mistreating our animals, we would never be allowed to rear stock again and we are in this business because we want to do right by our livestock and their wellbeing is paramount to us.”. In the new series (you can watch episode 1 on the BBC iPlayer), we are introduced to father-and-son team, Raymond and Johnny Irvine who have a farm in Tomintoul - … Jenny and I love to go out to Switzerland twice a year if we can, once for the gathering of the ewes off the hill in September and again in February for the big tup sale.”. “Mum was our backbone – she worked tirelessly behind the scenes keeping our book work up to date, dealing with accountants, doing registrations and keeping us all right. We think that the combination of the accident and the penicillin he received may have taken its toll on him.”. We finished the series with Major being led out to green pastures to meet around 20 females with the hope of him fathering the next group of calves. Some people will struggle with the idea of us eating the breed but we are farmers at the end of the day and need to explore other markets and the idea of serving the meat in top restaurants would be a fantastic market for them.”, Raymond and fiancee Jenny now visit Switzerland twice a year since buying their original flock of Valais Blacknose back in 2014. “There are days we will shout and swear at each other but an hour later you are back to normal – It’s always been that way and I grew up working with him, so we’re bound to have our moments. We have sold around 1000 straws over the pond. “We have a huge amount of interest from the US but right now we can’t sell embryos to the States, so they are buying semen and putting them to the closest thing they have – a Blackface sheep. THE THIRD series of This Farming Life proved once again to be a huge hit with both rural and urban audiences UK-wide, giving viewers a raw and honest insight into the daily lives of our hard-working farming and crofting families. It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times.
When I got in touch with the BBC to tell them a little bit about what we had on the farm and the dynamic between my father and I, they were really keen and that was that really. I have a lot more say now on decisions on the farm and I’m quite happy for him to potter about and bark orders, so he still feels like the boss.”. They now have around 75 breeding females and 25 followers in their growing flock. I can probably speak for around 60% of people in UK who also recognise that women are the backbone of most farms and too often aren’t given the credit for the extremely difficult work they take on with little thanks.

Raymond began by explaining why he got involved with the TV series and the feedback he has received from being part of the show: “It was my cousin Martin Irvine who featured on the first two series of This Farming Life who first planted the seed for me to go on the programme.

This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. During the programme Raymond talks about a lambing a few years ago where he lost over 100 lambs, stating that it was the worst day of his life: “I’ll never forget that time – I remember lambing the ewes and they were dropping like flies in front of me.

It is so important to me to try do all I can to try and help, as I struggle with the idea of giving up on a life. The relationship between Raymond and his father Johnny is a real highlight of the series, where we see them mischievously challenge one another on day to day issues. All episodes of This Farming Life.
“Farmers lose lambs all the time, but we try not to count them, but over those two days there was no escaping the pile of bodies building up. He explained what an enormous impact his mum has had on holding the farm together over the years: “It was all very sudden with mum and we have all really struggled to hold it together in her absence. Johnny senior lives nearby on the original Inverlochy Farm, where he looks after around 50 cross Simental Saler cattle and together their two farms look after 600 blackface ewes and followers. Raymond explained that if it hadn’t been for a really good year with his Valais Blacknose then they don’t know how the farm could have kept going: “Having two bulls let you down and a whole year out of calving – that really knocked the stuffing out of us, but hopefully things are looking up now and we are really looking forward to seeing the offspring next year from the new bulls. I’ve never seen such a buzz at a show in my entire life – the amount of people crowding the ring, you could hardly move – the atmosphere was electric and the support for the breed was amazing to see.”, The specially built Polytunnel provide shelter for Raymond and Jenny's growing flock of Valais Blacknose Ref:EC140319181. Get involved with the news in your community, This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Editors' Code of Practice. Raymond’s other son Rudy comes to stay on the farm at weekends and according to his dad is a ‘born farmer through and through’.

“The cameras were here during a few really tough months and the programme reflects some difficult moments we faced during that time and we didn’t want to hide away from some of the challenging decisions we have to make. THE THIRD series of This Farming Life proved once again to be a huge hit with both rural and urban audiences UK-wide, giving viewers a raw and honest insight into the daily lives of our hard-working farming and crofting families. The Charolais’s have been such a disaster so the sheep have really pulled us through everything. “Our flock of Valais Blacknose have been a total god-send, we won champion again this year at the Blacknose Beauties competition in September and our top ewe Highland Erin made top price of 6,800 guineas with another ewe making 4,800 guineas.

“The international interest in this breed is extraordinary, but there is no mistaking that the best quality animals are the original Valais Blacknose from Switzerland, which we are lucky enough to have started our flock with back in 2014. Raymond’s mum and Johnny’s wife Liz sadly passed away unexpectedly two months ago and it has been a devastating blow to the whole family. During that time, Scotland experienced challenging weather patterns with the beast from the east hitting the country in the early Spring, followed by a long hot Summer of drought-like conditions. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? I love farming life. Father and son duo Johnny and Raymond Irvine provided plenty of laughs, as well as heart-rendering moments, as we followed their relationship working side by side on the farm, enduring some of the toughest months of weather to hit Scotland in recent years. During the series we see Raymond and his dad working on their Mains of Inverurie farm which is where Raymond and fiancée Jenny stay, along with Raymond’s kids Adele and Johnny. “However, we don’t want to assume that the money will always be there with the breed and are currently speaking with specialist restaurants and chefs who are keen to promote the meat. There was one sheep that captured the hearts of the public and that was little Elfie. Raymond Irvine appeared in the third series of This Farming Life giving an insight in to hill farming in the Cairngorms Ref:RH061119036.

A huge curtain of snow and sleet came on and we couldn’t escape from it, the sheep wouldn’t move, and the lambs died in front of me. Read more: This Farming Life's Raymond Irvine on balancing the highs with the lows “People from all corners of life seem to love it and get hooked by the personal journeys our families embark on,” she continued. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then please contact the editor here. Raymond updates me on his development since the cameras left: “Sadly, when we brought in the cows for scanning we found that none of them were in calf and Major was revealed to be infertile. Farming gets a lot of flack of late and you can hardly do anything now without people complaining and criticising.

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