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On Your Farm: The Grass Route: A different way of raising beef

The Grass Route: A different way of raising beef

BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm, The Grass Route: A different way of raising beef

Richard Baynes visits an American oil executive turned farmer in South Ayrshire.

Richard Baynes meets a father-and-daughter team in South Ayrshire  who are determined to produce beef that’s better for the soil and better for people.

What does an American oil man do in retirement? Richard Baynes finds the answer isn’t always cruises, Florida and golf. He meets Phil Close, who has turned to the hard graft of raising beef cattle on the hills above the South Ayrshire coast. Phil and his daughter Heather are doing it differently - raising smaller, all-grass-fed animals that stay in the fields all winter, even as storms howl in off the Irish sea. Their nature-based system avoids medication and produces great-tasting meat, but can they make it pay?

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