Lynford House Farm

• Chemicals are widely used as pesticides and fertilisers
• Machinery costs are high but make the farm efficient. It only employs a small number of people
• What is mechanisation?

  Mechanisation is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery
• The farm has invested in what?

  a 54 million litre reservoir to tackle frequent water shortages
• What are the main crops?

  Wheat, potatoes and sugar beet
• The flat, fertile land is intensely farmed to maximise productivity and and profitability
• Lynford House Farm is an example of what?

  Agribusiness