It’s common to hear of high-flying professionals deciding to make a career change. What’s not as common is to go from managing $40bn in assets to running your own farms across 2,300 acres in the English countryside, MarketWatch reports.

But that’s what Graham Birch did, swapping a leadership role at investment behemoth BlackRock in London for a life as a farmer. He went from poring over price data in commodity markets to analysing satellite images of cropland — and now sells milk, oats and other foodstuffs produced at his farms in the southwest England county of Dorset.