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Help for farmers. Farming Today visits Beaufort House in the Somerset seaside town of Burnham-on-Sea where former farmers and their family members live in retirement. But this splendid Victorian building is different from many residential homes because it's owned and run by the welfare charity the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (R.A.B.I.). Farmers facing financial troubles are being offered free, confidential guidance by the Farming Community Network (FCN). The charity's Somerset co-ordinator, Suzie Wilkinson, has a simple message for people hit by money worries; don't ignore the problem. Support for rural communities comes in many forms and after a poor harvest in Orkney, Nancy Nicolson watches emergency straw supplies being loaded from the dockside at Montrose. In the Cotswolds, retired dairyman Malcolm Whitaker remembers the desperate call for help which prompted him to set up Gloucestershire Farming Friends. Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Vernon Harwood.