68-year-old John Want shows how he runs a 350-acre arable and cattle farm single-handed. He has been on the farm all his life and first of all tells Stephen how his mechanisation has advanced over the years.

Film-maker Jonathan Whitlam caught John every month to show his key operations, including mill-and-mixing cattle feed, drilling grass seed and beans, spraying, spreading fertiliser, cutting, baling and wrapping silage, harvesting winter wheat and baling the straw, combining beans, drilling winter cereals, ploughing and drying beans.

As we would expect from Stephen and Jonathan, there is plenty of footage of machinery in action, for John Want is a Ford and New Holland fanatic, a man who ‘can’t wait to get started in the morning’.