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Tenant farmers, Ice cream success story, Agritechnica

What does the future hold for tenant farmers? Caz Graham finds out and also hears about one woman's ice cream success story.

Tenant farmers from England and Wales have been meeting to discuss how best to secure their futures. Caz Graham asks Chris Cardell, the chairman of the NFU's tenant farmers group, what the issues facing tenant farmers are at the moment.

Today Agritechnica, the world's largest trade fair for agricultural technology and equipment, gets under way in Germany. This is where farmers can find out about the most 'intelligent' tractor on the market, hear the debate on how 3D printing can be used in farming and see all the latest innovations in agriculture. We hear from Robert Yardley, a young farmer from Cheshire who's going to the event, thanks to a scholarship from the Oxford Farming Conference.

And we meet a woman who's taken over the family business at the age of just twenty-four. Thirty years ago the Moore family were ahead of the times when they set up an ice cream business in the Yorkshire Dales, using the milk from their herd of Guernsey cows. Now Nicola Moore is running the business, after the deaths of both her father and grandfather.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Campbell.

13 minutes

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  • Mon 9 Nov 201505:45

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