Paul Whitelock on Manpower

Yes, just before, the late ’50’s, 59-60 and Charley could tell you how long it would take to plough each field on a wheat farm with a horse and I dare say, on a wheat farm there would  have been 10 or 12 labourers and I suspect that if you go to a wheat farm now, which is still farmed, there might be one or it  might even be part of a much bigger enterprise and there’s just one chap looking after, you know, twice the acreage. The change has been huge.