A farmer was left stunned when an irate motorist blasted their 60-year-old tradition of moving cattle across a road as “inconsiderate” to commuters.
Margaret Lees, 53, whose in-laws started Park Farm in Walmersley, Gtr Manchester, in 1958, moves her cows to their pasture twice a day between April and October.
And she said many locals loved seeing her 50-strong dairy herd and their calves spend five minutes crossing Manchester Road in the village.
But last week, the brief pause in traffic at 8.30am caused one driver to phone up her farm shop and rage at her employees about the rural practice.
After she posted about the incident on social media, she was “overwhelmed” by support from her community – and vowed to keep up the long-standing tradition.
Margaret Lees, 53, whose in-laws started Park Farm in Walmersley, Gtr Manchester, in 1958, moves her cows to their pasture twice a day between April and October.
And she said many locals loved seeing her 50-strong dairy herd and their calves spend five minutes crossing Manchester Road in the village.
But last week, the brief pause in traffic at 8.30am caused one driver to phone up her farm shop and rage at her employees about the rural practice.
After she posted about the incident on social media, she was “overwhelmed” by support from her community – and vowed to keep up the long-standing tradition.
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00:00Hi, good afternoon. I'm Margaret Lees. I'm here at Park Farm in Ramsbottom. We've been
00:13farming here for the last 60 years and every morning we take the cows from one side of
00:18the road to the other. This coincided apparently with an angry gentleman last week who was
00:25trying to get to work during rush hour. He rang the farm shop to complain that it was
00:30destructing his way to work and we put a little post on Facebook to advise him to get up earlier
00:39and then it wouldn't have any confrontation. This has been very much supported by the local
00:45community who have got behind us.