My wife and I farm in partnership with my parents, Robert and Sandra. We keep 100 Hereford cattle, known as Pulham Herefords, as well as 28,000 free-range laying hens and grow about 170ac combinable crops.

I met my wife in Lincoln University while studying crop production and when we came back to the farm we decided to diversify and put in a layers’ shed in 2003 and then built a second shed in 2007.

We were supplying another packing company originally, but around 2010 we felt it was right for us to start our own business selling directly to supermarkets.

We were part of a group of five farmers who set up Anglia Free Range Eggs, and now we supply Tesco and other supermarkets.

The layers come in at 16 weeks of age and start laying at 19 or 20 weeks and we have them until about 75 weeks of age.

When they are in full production, you should be getting 26,500 eggs a day. With the free-range layers, we have a stocking density of 1,000 chickens per hectare.

The first shed had 12ha around the shed itself and since the chickens don’t utilise that area we decided to get cattle.

We had a friend who had some Angus cattle but we decided they were too wild. Another friend had Hereford crosses that we liked, so we decided to get pedigree Herefords.

Philip and Laura Vincent of Pulham Herefords.

We currently have 43 breeding females, 17 of which are polled and the rest are horned. We aim to get a calf per cow every year and calve heifers at two and half years old.

The herd is split 50:50 autumn and spring calving. Our spring calving has just started and that will run through to April.

We started showing in 2009 with the aim of making a name for ourselves and promoting our herd.

We are very selective about our pedigree breeding and semen from our best bulls has been shipped to Ireland, South Africa and Europe

One of our biggest achievements would be winning female horned animal of the year and winning male horned animal of the year in 2015.

As well as showing and selling pedigree stock, we sell produce direct from our farm and online.

We kill about three or four animals a year and people buy meat boxes and eggs.

If you are running a farm business these days it is vital that you have a website and social media presence.

We are very selective about our pedigree breeding and semen from our best bulls has been shipped to Ireland, South Africa and Europe.

We’ve also sold stock to Ireland and, with Brexit coming, we’d have concerns about how that could affect livestock trade between the two countries.

For us selling bulls to Ireland, the idea of potential tariffs is worrying.

The whole process has been very tiring for everyone, but ultimately the people have made a decision and even if that’s the wrong one, the government needs to abide by it and start clearing up the uncertainty.