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St Ewe Free Range Eggs are stocked by major supermarkets and the business has been named in the Sunday Times list of the 100 fastest growing private companies in the UK. Bex Tonks is its CEO although she says she's 'just a farmer really'. St Ewe began as a means of boosting the income of the Tonks family's small Cornish dairy farm. The business began to take off when they started to pack their own eggs in a converted cattle shed on the farm. Supermarket contracts followed and in 2022 a state of the art packing facility opened a few miles away. Bex takes Sarah Swadling through the high tech process of getting millions of eggs a week from 56 suppliers farms, and their own farm, to the shops. They also discuss how the current Avian Influenza situation is affecting free range egg producers in England, as they've been ordered to keep birds housed until the heightened winter disease risk passes. Bex says Avian Flu is a business risk for the whole industry, whether egg producers or egg packers, but that it's important to stay confident.

Produced and Presented by Sarah Swadling