Highland farmers are in the pink
As you drive through the county this summer, readers will have noticed that the usual silage bales stacked in fields and farmyards have taken on a colourful new addition to the normal dreary black or green wrap.
In aid of breast cancer some farmers have been using pink wrap this year to show their support, paying an extra £3 per roll which goes to the charity. The wrap, supplied by W & A Geddes in Brora, has helped raise more than £10,000 already and Highland farmers are delighted to be seen doing their bit to help.
Pictured here stacking the last bale of haylage for his girlfriend, Lauren O’Donnell’s horse Tega, is Ewan Burnett, Aldie Farm Tain.
Lauren (21) runs an equestrian centre at Rosemount Lodge where she trains and schools horses, along with giving riding lessons. Ewan (20), grandson of Alison Burnett in Dornoch – who after leaving Dornoch Academy spent three years working for the Munros at Cyderhall – has been helping out on various farms throughout Easter Ross this summer.
At present he is in East Lothian driving a combine before heading to Australia to tackle his third harvest out there with a large contracting business. He’s one of a team of 17 combine drivers who last year cut in excess of 60,000 acres in the season including wheat, barley, peas, canola and spelt.
