Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why so many farmers are bad bosses

How talk of waxing and fake tan can help you manage your farm workers better

‘We as farmers can get a bit snooty about taking the time to explain to someone else how we’d like something done in a way that doesn’t make it sound like we think the other person is mud thick’

​Hannah Quinn-Mulligan

‘Just imagine you’re waxing your legs and commit to the pull,” were instructions I never thought I’d be issuing in a milking parlour.

But it’s a strangely perfect analogy when it comes to getting a sticky milking cluster off a cow.