Brian Scanlon Author

Chris Clark is a non-generational farmer, who when at agricultural college with his wife-to-be, decided that they would buy a farm before he turned 50. His post-college career, with his wife, included spells farming entirely free-range pigs on an organic arable farm, as a tenant farmer and setting-up a successful management consultancy practice specialising in marketing and graphic design work. He purchased Nethergill, a 170 ha farm set in the magnificently moody landscape of Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire, at 49 and set about turning it into a model of upland farming applying all his considerable management consulting experience.

Brian Scanlon is a graduate in mathematics and physics with a post-graduate qualification in operational research. His career started in the steel industry and later embraced management consulting and banking. He had, in parallel, set-up a company which had effected some privatisation projects and flotations on AIM. Farming, to him, was an alien world and he would be 55 before he set foot on a farm. His career had been with major corporations in North America, Europe, and Japan.