Uploaded February 2018 | Updated September 2026, 28 minutes ago
Produced in 1986 by the RSPB Film Unit, "In The Shadow of the Plough" features David Long who runs a mixed farm in Dorset, with sheep and cattle, and grows his own barley.
David is seen feeding cattle, ploughing, lambing, shearing and haymaking. He preserves his copses, homes of badgers, woodpeckers, crows, wrens and jackdaws, and his hedges with their wealth of wildlife.There are birds of prey with their young and young barn owls nesting in his barn.
Produced in 1986 by the RSPB Film Unit, "In The Shadow of the Plough" features David Long who runs a mixed farm in Dorset, with sheep and cattle, and grows his own barley.
David is seen feeding cattle, ploughing, lambing, shearing and haymaking. He preserves his copses, homes of badgers, woodpeckers, crows, wrens and jackdaws, and his hedges with their wealth of wildlife.There are birds of prey with their young and young barn owls nesting in his barn.
