Helen Drinkall

NFU Next Generation Forum

Helen has an upland beef and sheep farm in Lancashire. She has been working at home on the farm for almost 10 years now, after graduating from Harper Adam’s in 2013.

Helen is predominantly on tenanted ground, with all of her moors and some of her green land being under an AHA tenancy with United utilities. The rest is either owned or tenanted from six other landlords under FBTs.

She runs approximately 2000 breeding ewes and 40 beef shorthorn suckler cattle. Most of the lambs are fattened either on ground held on a week-by-week basis over winter, or at home on bought in feed.

Most of her cattle are also fattened at home or on grass, or some bought in feed. Helen also sells meat boxes direct to the public. This is her second term on the NFU's Next Generation forum.