Farming Today This Week: Farming Entrepreneurs

Anna Hill talks innovation and business ideas with Berkshire farmer Mark Bennett who's installed floating solar panels on a man-made reservoir on his land. The programme explores some of the issues in a new report presented to the Oxford Farming Conference, which said there are fewer entrepreneurs in farming than in other sectors. Mark Bennett has set up Floating Solar UK as a diversification on the 300 acre farm. He realised he could make good use of the 'dead space' above the water rather than install ground panels which would take up grazing land. He also rents storage space and small business units, and supplies water and power to a fruit farm.
We meet a farmer who's come up with a way of grazing her sheep that saves her time and money; and a dairy farmer who's turned entrepreneur to make the business pay.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner.