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12/04/2010

Europe's largest dairy farm is put on hold and local residents breathe a sigh of relief. And for the first time in 17 years, sales of organic food have fallen.

Europe's largest dairy farm is put on hold and local residents breathe a sigh of relief. And for the first time in 17 years, sales of organic food have fallen. Also, rural tourism is worth around 脗拢17 billion pounds a year to the UK economy, and is so important to the rural economy that some farmers are choosing to invest more into leisure than in food production. Caz Graham visits Cobble Hey Farm which is perched on a hill in Forest of Bowland in Lancashire. The farm houses a national collection of geraniums and farmer Edwina Miller is as busy tending the tourists that come to see them and the other plants on show in their cottage garden, as her husband and sons are with the livestock.

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Mon 12 Apr 2010 05:45

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