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A drop in the value of dairy commodities on one of the international trading platforms will be exactly the news that dairy farmers don't want to hear. The last Global Dairy Trade Auction saw an overall decrease of ten per cent, but Luke Crossman, a senior analyst at the industry body DairyCo, tells Charlotte Smith that it may not be a cause for immediate alarm.

With food tourism on the rise, Ben Jackson hears about new attempts to get the growing band of foodie tourists onto farms, and turn them into customers.

And what image springs to mind, if you hear the word 'farmer'? If it's a middle-aged man leaning on a gate, you may be out of date. Charlotte Smith hears from one of the young farmers who are helping to prove the stereotype wrong. Twenty-six year old Lindsay Martin is a farmer in Kent. She talks about the challenges and opportunities for young people starting out in agriculture.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.