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This issue’s Derbyshire Club feature focuses on the Alsopledale and Havendale herds, two long established herds in the Club.
Photography by Richard Hodgson
by William Bunting’s father William when he moved back to the home farm of Crosslow Bank with 70 cows from his father’s Alsopdale herd. Home grown families continue to shine in the Alsopledale herd. While a few miles away the Havendale herd was first registered by Tom and Sue Flower in 1982 and is now managed by their son Ed. This herd has developed from investments made in Canada and the UK.
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he Alsopledale herd was registered in 1949
ALSOPLEDALE Now under the management
of Will Bunting the Alsopledale herd has grown to 200 cows. Will’s great grandfather registered the Alsopdale herd in 1932 having purchased the 100-acre Crosslow Bank Farm in 1919. Will is the seventh generation of William Bunting and the fourth generation at Crosslow Bank Farm.
Having taken over the farm in 1982 when the herd consisted of 70 cows Will’s father William purchased an additional 57 acres that year and then in
1983 a further 58 acres. The farm now runs at 220 acres with extra land rented to cope with NVZ rules now totalling 160 acres. “The NVZ restrictions also meant slurry storage was an issue, however, land on the other side of the road from the farm is not in NVZ restrictions so allows us to spread through the winter,” explains Will. As the herd has developed William has noticed that it has been home bred families that are lasting, although he did get a lot of enjoyment from Canwell Cat Sugar EX93-8E which won numerous local shows and stood third heifer in milk at the National Holstein Show.
The Bunting family at Cross Low Bank Farm, William, Rachel, Will, Anne and daughters Isabelle and Jessica.
Will Bunting is the seventh generation of Williams in the Bunting family and farms in partnership with his father , William and mother Rachel.
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