I farm: “About 700ha at Great Glen Ranch up near Spean Bridge. We have 100 Galloway cows and 400 Blackface ewes. In Glencoe we have about 4,000ha, we own half and the rest is rented from the National Trust on a five-year lease. There is approximately 1,000 Blackface ewes there and both places are organic since 2005.

This week: “We’re feeding cows every day. We produce just about enough silage on our better fields. The sheep generally fend for themselves but we do feed some of the ones in Glencoe. The shepherd down there does a lot of vermin control, there’s quite a big problem with foxes. Not so much sea eagles yet but we’re waiting on them.

Organic: “We farm quite extensively anyway, the change from one to the other wasn’t a big one. We saw it as a way of getting a conversion payment and then lateral ones for basically doing what we do.

Sales: “Our sheep go to another organic farm, a dairy farm in Elgin. He grazes them on his grass and then sends them away between January and March. All the calves go to Duncan Hepburn in Inverness, again an organic farmer but more arable with carrots and potatoes. He finishes about 2,000 cattle.

Hill farming: “The highest point on farm is 3,850ft, the highest peak in Argyll. We have a lot of ineligible area which I often think we should get paid more for because we have to walk over the whole thing.

Staff: “There’s myself, my father, who is 79, is still doing quite a lot, a full-time shepherd and my 15-year-old son.

Quotable quote: “There’s hill farming and there’s mountain farming. I like to think where you can’t drive a quad bike is mountain.”