My nearest local farmer is actually our milkman - no, he's not my dad or any other milkman relate jokes.....I had a word with him and he let me use one of his fields for hill repping "Aye go on then, best of luck t' ya lad"
I once had a full on conversation with one farmer who must have had abit of time to kill....was asking where I'd come from, where I was going, why I was running in the first place.
I didnt tell him that the week before his entire heard of dairy cows went mental when I stepped into the field and started charging around and smashed through a fence