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On Your Farm: Three Women in Beef

Three Women in Beef

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Anna Hill meets three women running an organic beef farm in Suffolk.

Anna Hill visits an organic beef farm in Suffolk, where she meets three generations of women who run the business with compassion and care for their animals.

Anna Hill meets three women from three different generations, working together to produce organic beef on a small farm in Suffolk. She hears how two of them are first-time farmers, brought into agriculture by circumstance. The farm manger, a single mother, used to work in a concrete factory, but took a job on the farm to make ends meet when she was out of work. She later recruited her niece, who had started a course in tourism but decided it wasn't for her, and now says she loves her cows and wouldn't work anywhere else. Meanwhile the farm owner, now in her 80s, still does the paperwork, pays the bills and runs the business. It's a tale of co-operation, compassionate animal welfare, and faith in the strength of women to get the job done.

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