 After Sussex he set up Fountain Farming where he put his farming practice views into operation and established a large scale intensive food production business that, with a dairy herd of over 5,000 animals and over of production, became the largest private farm in Europe.He had to pull out of this business when he ran out of investment partners and concentrated over the next few years in foreign enterprises where he held many senior posts in a variety of countries including Zimbabwe, Australia and New Zealand.Alongside his farming activities he was a journalist with a column in Farming News and also wrote the occasional obituary in "The Times".