A meeting with their bankers led to the proposal that they should sell some of the land and 40 of the herd to help solve some of the financial challenges they were facing. Ann was not prepared to do that, seeing selling your way out as a slippery slope downwards, and actually she needed to find a way to generate more revenue.
As a result of that determination, the bank gave her another 6 months. Ann, her husband Edward and her sons Stephen and Neil, who provided great support to Ann through the many challenges along the way, discussed on maximising the number of cows in calf and led to the accolade from the bank manager 6 months later, ‘Ann, Edward and Sons, you have done the impossible’.
