About Daniel
Big-company IT, brought to the farm gate.
Daniel has spent his working life running IT for companies where it couldn’t go wrong: networks for hundreds of people, security that had to hold, and the phone call at 2am when it didn’t. Milsch is that, for farms, rural businesses and the homes around them.
Photo of Daniel coming soon
His story
The cattle passport
Where he’s been, and where he’s moved to.
Milsch passport
Daniel Bedwell
- Ear tag
- MILSCH 0001 DB
- Breed
- Enterprise IT, crossed with farm common sense
- Temperament
- Calm in a crisis. Explains things once, properly.
- Bred in
- North Wiltshire
- Turned out
- Self-employed, 2026
- Distinguishing marks
- Wellies in the van. A laptop bag. A ladder for the barn gable.
Not an official document. No cattle were moved in the making of this passport.
Record of movements
Movement 1
Lucent Technologies
Senior IT management, Malmesbury
Big-company IT at the telecoms giant's Malmesbury site: networks, servers and a lot of people depending on them.
Movement 2
Omitec Vehicle Diagnostics
IT, Wiltshire
The people behind the diagnostic kit garages plug into cars. Hardware, software and the electronics in between.
Movement 3
Continental
Lead IT administrator
Leading IT administration for one of the world's biggest automotive suppliers.
Movement 4
IMSM
Head of IT, Malmesbury
Head of IT for the whole organisation at IMSM, the ISO specialists, from their office at The Gig House in Malmesbury: the systems, the security and the people, across every office.
Moved to
Milsch
His own boss, North Wiltshire
Everything he learned running IT for big companies, brought to the farm gate.
Why farms
Because nobody else was doing it properly.
Farms run on technology now. The parlour has a computer in it, the tractor steers itself to a centimetre, the cameras watch the yard and the government wants the books online every quarter. But the IT industry treats farms as an afterthought: a template page on a London firm’s website, and an engineer who has never had mud on his boots.
Farmers value knowing who they’re dealing with. They want the same person every time, someone who turns up when he says, tells them the truth about what’s worth doing and what isn’t, and doesn’t send a bill that makes them wince. That’s the whole idea.
Daniel is based between Malmesbury and Chippenham, and covers North Wiltshire and the southern Cotswolds. He does homes and small businesses in the towns too, because the farmhouse kitchen and the estate office need the same things done well.
Why “Milsch”?
Say it “milsh”. It’s milk, with a bit of an accent: in parts of Germany that’s exactly how they say it. A farm word, a short one, and nobody else is using it.
The box is a nod to the computers of the nineties that came in cow-print boxes. If you remember them, you’re the right age to be fed up with modern IT support.
We don’t milk it.
Off duty, he’s on the air.
Daniel is a radio ham, and a properly knowledgeable one. If you’ve ever fancied getting licensed, or the farm team needs radios that reach the far field, he’ll help.
The promise
Written down, so you can hold him to it.
The price before the work
A proper quote, agreed first. If a job turns out bigger than it looked, he stops and asks.
No contracts
Pay as you go, or a monthly plan you can leave whenever you like.
Plain English
Explained once, properly, and written on the farm IT card by the router.
Same man every time
Not a helpdesk. Daniel knows your yard, your kit and which dog bites.
Put the kettle on. He's on his way.
Ring, text or WhatsApp. Or book a visit and he’ll ring you back.