Food prices rises are farmers’ boon

Food prices rises are farmers’ boon

Wheat
By Jonty Bloom
BBC News, South Wales

Deep in the Pembrokeshire national park, down long green lanes, Lawrenny Farm lies basking in the sun, amid sleepy fields.
It is a mixed farm, with 10,000 acres of dairy, beef and arable. Owen Lort-Phillips’ family has been farming here for 500 years and it looks and sounds like nothing has changed in half a millennium.

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But things are changing at Lawrenny. Owen has turned his mixed farm organic – a long and expensive process, even with massive EU subsidies, but the rewards are obvious.

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