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Caz Graham investigates how the UK dairy industry compares internationally, from how farmers look after their cows to the price of a pint.

More than 13 billion litres of milk is produced in the UK each year making it now the ninth biggest dairy producer in the world and third biggest in Europe.

On the Shropshire Powys borders the Eyres family are turning their milk into artisan cheese. Caz explores the journey from liquid to produce. Over the last five years a third of European dairy farmers have left the industry; she asks why the family have chose to invest instead.

Farming Today This Week also explores the controversial European 'zero-grazing' dairying method and expanding markets here and overseas for whey, the liquid waste from cheese making. It's just one of many new dairy products being flogged across the world - from milk powders across the middle east to health supplement ingredients in sports drinks.

Produced by Clare Freeman in Birmingham.