Video: Tractor aid as Yorkshire farmers help Somerset relief effort

TWO tractors and trailers laden with livestock fodder and bedding will set off on a 225-mile journey from Wakefield to Bridgwater in Somerset in the early hours of tomorrow.

By The Newsroom

Published 12th Feb 2014, 15:43 BST

John Hill, Philip and John Rowbottom before they set off to Somerset

The ten-hour ‘tractor aid’ run is being undertaken by Wakefield NFU member Philip Rowbottom and his neighbour Andrew Nicholson, who runs an agricultural contracting business.

The pair will drive two tractor and trailer rigs – each laden with 15 tonnes of silage, haylage, hay and straw.

The cost of the diesel is being met by local farmers and the Wakefield NFU branch and all the donated fodder and bedding has been sourced by members of the Barugh and District Ploughing Association.

Mr Rowbottom said: “We deliberately wanted to take the donations by tractor and trailer to help highlight the plight of farmers so desperately in need on the Somerset Levels.”