Enterprising young couple, Ross and Elaine Pattinson, have packed a lot into the last decade – establishing their successful pedigree Top Side British Blue herd, setting up a commercial dairy herd – and, most recently, diversifying into direct sales of milk to customers. In their first farming business together, the couple took on the tenancy of Temon Farm, near Brampton, right on the Cumbria-Northumberland border, in 2011. The Cumbrian-born pair first set up their small herd of Blues which, within a short space of time, was winning accolades in the show ring and achieving leading prices at pedigree sales – as well as breaking new ground in British Blue polled cattle breeding.