“Weather, weather, weather, weather, Brexit, weather, Covid, weather, weather and sheep, I would say were the 10 big problems that we had,” he says. “There were five separate weather records set in a 12-month period. Every farmer around here said to me ‘you couldn’t have chosen a worse year to start farming’. You couldn’t even put seeds in the ground, because it didn’t stop raining for nine weeks. So it was just ridiculous.”