Return to Rose Farm

DVD PAL

Nearly ten years after we first visited
John Want, the manager of Rose Farm, for
the DVD Farming Diaries Volume One A
Life On The Land, we return to see what
has happened since, with new tractors
and machinery. Joh, now 77 years young,
has always been an advocate of having
more power and in this DVD we find out
just how much!

A Life On The Land is still our
bestselling DVD and sold all around the
globe. In Return To Rose Farm, presented
by Stephen Richmond, we follow John
through the seasons, but not over one
single year, instead we see activity
over a nine year period and John himself
talks us through his activities and the
machinery he is using.

John also discusses early life on the
farm when he was a boy and also how he
used to use horses for a great deal of
the workload. Eventually a different
form of horse power is adopted in the
shape of the tractor and John looked for
more and power power from then on.

Blue is the colour for John’s tractor
fleet, something that has remained
constant for many years, but some jobs
have now been put out to contract and we
even see a Massey Ferguson at work
drilling oilseed rape, plus what on
earth is John doing with a John Deere
telehandler!

If you are one of the tens of thousands
of viewers who enjoyed the first
instalment of John Want’s story then
this DVD is a must. And even if you
didn’t, the story in this second part
holds up as a stand-alone tale. It is
much more than just farm machinery in
action (although there is plenty enough
of that), it is also a personal story of
farming over seven decades and it may
well leave you with emotions that you
did not think a farming DVD could evoke!
You have been warned.

• Running time 120 mins
• PAL DVD