09/05/2012

Anna Hill meets a family who feel forced to sell their 100-year-old pedigree dairy herd because of changes in the price paid to dairy farmers for milk. As a 5th milk processor decides to cut its price, the chair of the board representing Robert Wiseman milk producers has resigned because he believes the decision to drop the price is unjustified.

Young farmers across Europe are being prevented from entering the industry because of a lack of land and because banks aren't lending. That's the concern of CEJA, the European Council of Young Farmers, which says the problem is the same across the EU and is leading to an industry far too reliant on an aging workforce. Moira Hickey visits Inverness and hears how crofts lying idle are blocking the way for people who hope to enter farming.

Producer Clare Freeman.