{"id":63506,"date":"2026-10-26T03:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/storm-boelos-catastrophic-50k-impact-on-cheshires-bates-farm\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T03:26:49","slug":"storm-boelos-catastrophic-50k-impact-on-cheshires-bates-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/storm-boelos-catastrophic-50k-impact-on-cheshires-bates-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Boelo&#8217;s &#8216;catastrophic \u00a350k impact&#8217; on Cheshire&#8217;s Bates Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-merseyside-68566023\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">The sisters have been running Bates Farm since their father, Michael, died in October 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC in 2024, shortly after taking over the farm, Fiona said they had a lot to get their heads round but their father, who ran the farm for 30 years before he died of cancer, helped them as much as he could even when he was poorly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fiona and Ali are now trying to fix some of the damage caused by the weekend&#8217;s storm so they can open on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ali said the financial impact was &#8220;catastrophic, but not in the way that you would assume &#8211; a lot of the cost is very hidden&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adding how refunding booking fees,  the loss of pumpkin sales and lost stock from fresh food vendors not being able to trade were among the hidden costs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ali estimated the overall financial impact of the storm was about \u00a350,000 which included the farm&#8217;s &#8220;infrastructure expenditure such as repairing the marquee, shed, and needing to use expensive wood chips to make sure the ground was fit to reopen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added how the farm and its events already operate &#8220;at such tight margins&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvze4jjjgwlgo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sisters have been running Bates Farm since their father, Michael, died in October 2023. Speaking to the BBC in 2024, shortly after taking over the farm, Fiona said they had a lot to get their heads round but their father, who ran the farm for 30 years before he died of cancer, helped them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[17226,10205,17225,16518,17227,1079,4602,1402],"class_list":["post-63506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-50k","tag-bates","tag-boelos","tag-catastrophic","tag-cheshires","tag-farm","tag-impact","tag-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63508,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63506\/revisions\/63508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}