Elizabeth Allison (Mailbox, September 1) thought she had scored a few points when she read my earlier letter.

Sorry to disappoint you, Elizabeth, what I wrote was: Although I went to a farm daily and was paid at the end of the week, I never looked upon it as work, it was the love of the land and animals.

This was true, but in plain English, I was employed on a farm to work, but enjoyed it so much it never felt like work.

She goes on once more about her reliable sources of information. Sorry, you can have all the sources of information on earth, but until you've done the job you don't know the ins and outs of what it entails.

If you are putting a milking machine on an unsettled cow or young heifer who won't co-operate, it's no good ringing Defra.

If I do want to brush up a few points, I've a little collection of books I won as a member of the YFC over many years – on dairy cow rationing, stock judging, sheep judging.

I was also only just beaten as an 18-year-old by a 24-year-old in the final of the eliminating contest to represent the North Riding of Yorkshire at one of the big Sunday agricultural shows. Sorry to boast.

But let's hear of your experience in farming for a change, instead of secondhand information which you are so keen to fall back on.

Mr G Wright, Leicester.