Fourth-generation farmer, 28-year-old Becka Stables, tells Farmers Weekly about her farming family and her career journey so far.
With her family, she farms 580 acres at Lowbank End and Newhall Farm in Appleby, just outside of Cumbria. Her great-grandparents came to the farm in 1937.
Her randdad bought Lowbank End in 1980, and they bought Newhall Farm in 1974. The two farms run side by side.
They milk 90 to 100 Friesians and buy in eight- to 10-month-old Limousin heifers, which they fatten up and finish, then supply to the local butchery.
They grow 130 acres of barley to feed and bed all of the cattle. They also have their own machinery for the silage and harvest so they don’t need to rely on contractors when the weather’s catchy.