FARMERS from Oxenhope and Keighley have doffed off for the 2018 versions of a hugely popular pair of cheeky farmers’ calendars.

Devon photographer Nicola de Pulford snapped the brave men and women for the Naked Farmers and Naked Lady Farmers collections.

She took to the fields and hills of the Worth Valley to capture Joseph Holmes, Andrew Wood, Freya Bunton, Daniel Cook and Ella Bunton in the altogether.

Sales of the calendar will this time raise money for the Help For Heroes charity.

Nicola said she had published the calendars since 1999 from her farm, Painsford Manor Farm at Totnes in Devon.

She said: “I was appalled by the hardship caused to farmers by the ban on the export of British beef and the foot and mouth outbreak two years later.

“To highlight their plight I published the Naked Farmers Calendar with a view to put a smile on people’s faces. It was one of the first of its kind and has remained a best seller ever since.

“For the first few years I raised money for Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution which supports struggling farmers and subsequently for educational charities and for the last three years Help for Heroes.”

Nicola said she was delighted to be invited to the Women of the Year Award in October this year.

She made the trip north earlier this year to seek willing models for the 2018 release of the calendars.

She said: “As always I was made extremely welcome when I came to Yorkshire this spring, to photograph the amazing farming models from the Keighley area.”

Nicola chose Joseph Holmes and Freya Bunton, both from Oxenhope, as the models for the covers of the two calendars.

Both from Keighley, Daniel Cook is Mr November and Andrew Wood is Mr September, while Oxenhope woman Ella Bunton is Miss May.

Andrew, who is heavily involved in the local Young Farmers Club, appeared in one Nicola’s first calendars 15 years ago.

Nicola joined more than 400 women from all walks of life at the Women of the Year Lunch as a 2017 Woman of Achievement.

At the age of 17 Nicola took charge of her mixed family farm in Wiltshire and she has been farming ever since.

She is also the joint author and photographer of Behind the Hedge, an illustrated guide to British Farming, published by Sigma Press. She also works as a professional photographer.

The calendars each cost £7.99 plus £1.50 postage and packing and are available from thefarmerscalendar.co.uk.