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Farming Today: Challenges in Family Farming

29/12/2017

Challenges in Family Farming

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Challenges in Family Farming

The stories of two families facing different problems in the succession of their farms.

Farming Today turns the spotlight on family succession as Howard Shannon investigates the relationships between the farming generations.

Today we turn the spotlight on family succession as we investigate the relationships between the farming generations. Howard Shannon has been to meet two families who face very different problems. In Hertfordshire we hear from a farmer who feared his son was more interested in rugby than taking over the dairy herd. Meanwhile in Northamptonshire a family worries about the impending handover to their daughter in light of the arable and sheep farm being cut in two by the HS2 train line. We also hear how the older generation have often found the handover process to be a fraught one and why in one case a third party intermediary was the answer.

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