This is the BBC.

In this edition of the bottom line, we'll be exploring the UK farming industry, how it works

and what the future will bring.

Hello and welcome to the programme.

There are few businesses that are more subject to random shocks than farming, a sector that is victim to all

the usual market problems such as changes in consumer taste, but which also has to cope with

the weather and disease on a daily basis. We take our food supply for granted, but we have a

sophisticated agricultural profession that allows us to be so relaxed about obtaining nutrition.

Unless you're living off space food or rocks, your life depends on the farming business like no other.

Well, I have three farmers with me today, and we'll talk about their work, which is interesting enough,

but I also want to talk about Brexit, which promises or threatens, something of a revolution for the industry in this country.

Let me introduce those three.

First up is Minette Batters, a beef farmer and deputy president of the National Farmers Union.

And Minette, just tell us a little about the farm, where it is, how big it is,

and how many people you employ.

So we're tenant farmers near Salisbury in Wiltshire.

I employ two people.

We're very diversified.

So we have 100 breeding beef cows, up to 300 head of stock on farm at any one time.

We have a small pedigree flock of sheep.

And we have an arable rotation

that works around the farm keeping our grass in tip-top condition. But we also, my background

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