Farmer, 96, has no plans to be put out to pasture

ONE of Britain’s oldest farmers has vowed to plough on at the age of 96 — and says he still enjoys the work.

- By Sarah Chambers

Russell Ling has worked on his family’s Grange Farm since he was 16, but was lending a helping hand from the age of nine.

It’s thought he could be the oldest active farmer in the county — if not the country — and has no plans to stop taking part in haymaking, ploughing and rolling.

Mr Ling, from Otley, Suffolk, said: “I don’t know what I would do with myself. I would rather do something outside. I have been working all my life — you shouldn’t just stop and I enjoy doing the work.