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Mud Sweat and Tractors
11th April 2009
A programme due for screening on BBC 4 this coming Wednesday could be a really useful teaching resource on the economics of farming.
This is a new documentary series looking at the history of 20th century farming in Britain opens by focusing on milk. In the early years of the century, 150,000 dairy farmers milked by hand and sold milk door to door. By the end of the century the 15,000 that were left were breeding cows that increased yields by 400 per cent and milk was sold through supermarkets.
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.