麻豆约拍

Around 1.5 million hectares of Barley is grown here each year, putting it in the top three most common crops in the UK. This week Charlotte is with Will Dickenson in Hertfordshire as he revs up the combine for his first harvest of 2012.

Used primarily for animal feed and brewing, barley has been grown in the UK since the stone age. We follow the the crop's progress from the field to the distillers and the breweries.

This programme is presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Angela Frain in Birmingham.