'Wool used to be worth a fortune, now it’s worth nothing.'
He’s currently engaged in harvesting fodder beet that is grown to feed his herd of around 400 cattle on 28 acres to the other side of the River Calder at Holme Bank Mills, which was once one of a number of mills owned by James Walker Textiles in the heyday of West Yorkshire’s Heavy Woollen industry.
Richard’s own contribution to farming history came when he was part of the new freezer generation in the 70s when he and many other farmers and butchers grew their businesses on the back of refrigeration of meat by the public.“I started working at the slaughterhouse in Bradford in 1960, straight from school. I’m from Mirfield and at 10 years old I had decided I wanted to be a farmer, not just a farm worker but a farmer.“In 1975 I opened a butcher’s shop.
“We buy store cattle in autumn, over-winter them and they start becoming fat from August onwards. The ones that don’t get fat on the grass we finish off inside from October.Richard Haigh from New Hall Farm, Lower Hopton, near Mirfield. Pictured George Haigh in the farm shop. 29th November 2022. Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe
“Every crop we grow is for feed,” said Richard. “Including grass for both grazing and silage for the cattle, and every animal we finish goes through the farm shop.Richard said that the first lockdown brought about a much busier trade in the spring and early summer of 2020 and that the increased number of people it brought has been maintained.
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