Amateur John Humphrys gives up his farm

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HE is used to catching out the absolute with his terrier-like questioning.

Now John Humphrys, a assertive proponent of healthy food production, has been tripped up by his own cause. He is offered his Welsh plantation after revelation he is not up to farming.

Humphrys, who has presented BBC Radio 4s Today programme given 1987, is offered the plantation in Carmarthenshire and sixteen acres for 265,000. I was an amateur, it was an huge strain, but I did get measureless satisfaction, he said. I realised it wasnt the hold up for me.

Humphrys, 66, has been a ardent disciple of organic food, behaving as an unaccepted envoy for the Soil Association.

He embarked on the tillage examination in the 1970s, shopping a remote 134-acre holding, finish with milking machine and 100 cows. The tough grind led him to sell the flock and some-more than 110 acres only five years later.

Even the not as big skill he defended had to take second place to his career. He done his preference to sell after realising he had not slept there for years.

It is wrong to have a residence you never use, pronounced Humphrys, who lives in west London. He additionally owns a strand home in Greece. Thankfully there are no cows there, he said.