
26/04/2011
We meet a family going back into milking at a time when nine dairy farmers a week are leaving the UK industry. Plus, a visit to the last traditional oak bark leather tannery.
The number of dairy farmers has almost halved in the last ten years, but we meet a Cornish family making a return to milk production. The Dyers sold their cows in 2004, to concentrate on developing a bottled water business. Now their son, Michael, has come back to the family farm and sees his future in dairy. A new herd of Jersey cows has just arrived and their milk will be sold to a local ice cream manufacturer. The chairman of the National Farmers' Union's Next Generation Dairy Board, Roger Lewis, tells Caz Graham there are many similar young people eager to start dairy farming, their problem is finding an affordable, suitably equipped, farm.
And Farming Today explores dressing local with a trip to the last tannery in the UK to still use oak bark to transform cattle hides into leather.
Presenter: Caz Graham
Producer: Sarah Swadling.
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