The number of dairy farms in Britain has fallen to a record low. For John Humphrys, who has owned two Welsh farms, interviewing Prime Ministers is a doddle – try milking a cow.
7,010 milk-producers were left in the UK last year after 190 farms went out of business. That's 85 per cent lower than the 46,000 milk producers in the country in 1980. John Humphrys, who has owned two Welsh farms, remembers his milking days It’s all very well listening to Jeremy Clarkson banging on about the trials and tribulations of being a farmer, but I have a question for him: ‘When was the last time you lay on the floor of a milking parlour, literally covered in dung and screaming in agony, because, not for the first time, one of your cows had kicked you clean across the parlour, quite possibly breaking your arm in the process?’ I know the answer. He has only beef cattle, and the milk he sells comes from a neighbouring dairy farm. So I can safely say he has never had to milk a cow in...
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