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The author covers various issues related to farming in Buckinghamshire, England. He mentions how the locals enjoy seeing his Jersey cows in the fields. He relates his activities in the farm which include farming the land and helping to provide the value of farmed green belt land. He stresses the need for farmers to meet the needs of the future of the metropolitan green belts.

The article reports on bare land properties available on the market in Great Britain. The 100-acre Grade 3 land at Manor Farm in Buckinghamshire has been well farmed and maintained and produces a good crop of grass. Fisher German offers a 13.1-acre plot of pasture land in Kingsey, a part of a turf nursery. A restored quarry site totaling 114 acres in four lots, managed under a Nature Conservation Management Plan, is selling for 560,000 British pounds.

The article features Ian Walker and his farm at Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, England. Walker is a first-generation farmer, having been first a contractor, then a share farmer and, for the past eight years, a tenant. He operates a six-year rotation involving milling wheat, oilseed rape and beans. Loads of bird boxes have been put up in the farm and Walker has been gratified by the return of barn owls plus more kestrels to the farm.

The article announces the sale of farms in Buckinghamshire, England by agent Faulkners. Bury Farm at Slapton is the largest offering with perhaps the most unusual opportunities. The 267-acre unit is home to Nick Griffin's Buffalo House business, which supplies Waitrose as well as retailing its own produce. Faulkner's Jack Panton has priced the farm, which includes a three-bedroom house, at £1.4 million. Griffin said the 400 buffalos, 160 of which are being milked, were worth on average £300 a head. At Mentmore, Panton is selling 217-acre Rowden farm. The livestock unit comes with a three-bedroom agriculturally tied house and there is consent for almost 25,000 square feet of new buildings. The guide is £1.2 million. Stampwell Farm at Beaconsfield, priced at £ 3.5 million, runs to 198 acres and there is consent to convert its listed farmhouse and barns into one or two substantial family homes and three further houses.