Farming Today This Week

Seventeen year-old Cameron Hendry was always going to take over the family farm - two-and-a-half thousand acres of tough hill country in the Trossachs - but the sudden death of his father, David, on Christmas Day last year has left him in charge much sooner than he would have wanted. Determined that he, his mother Marianne and brother Duncan would not lose the farm as well as their husband and father, he immediately decided to leave school and put his plans to go to college on hold. Charlotte Smith talks to Cameron about the family's grief for David and their determination to keep the farm running and do him proud. Drawing enormous strength from the support offered to them by the local community, the family discuss the changes they have had to make to the farm since David's death, their plans for the future and their absolute conviction that losing him was bad enough: they refuse to lose their farm as well.