Down on the Farm with Perthshire Farmer Martin Kennedy

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Mark and Martin discuss the various issues facing farmers in Scotland including river management, beavers, new entrants, the future of agricultural support and why farming is the best job in the world.

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0:40.3	How you doing, Matt? I'm all right. That was comparatively straightforward.
0:43.3	Ah, so far so good, eh. So far so good.
0:46.3	Is it just the one you're shifting?
0:47.3	One and then we're bringing an hour four out of that shed and they're going up to their shed up there, so.
0:50.3	Right, okay.
0:51.3	We'll just shift this gate right.
0:52.3	All right, no problem.
0:53.3	How you doing? I'm absolutely fine. Absolutely fine. This is the nicest day I've seen. said up there so. Right, okay. We just shift this gate, right? All right, no problem.
0:55.0	How you doing?
0:56.0	I'm absolutely fine.
0:56.6	Absolutely fine.
0:59.2	This is the nicest day I've seen in a bit of fortnight.
0:59.8	Oh, jeans.
1:01.3	It's been unbelievable, is it now?
1:02.6	Terrible. Absolutely terrible, well. It's been shocking.
1:04.3	As you'll have gathered, I arrived at Martin Kennedy's farm on a hill above Aberfeldy and Pershire, just as he and his daughter were moving cattle around.
1:11.6	Now, you may think that conversations about the weather are pretty par for the course amongst farmers,
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