Beechdean Farm

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Beechdean Farm
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Farm Background

• The dairy farm owns 600 acres of land. This
  is situated in the center of Buckinghamshires
  Chiltern Hills. On this land, they have 120
  Jersey cows and 270 Friesian cows. The farms
  jersey cows milk are used to make ice-cream and
  the Friesian cows milk are transported to the
  market. They produced milk for 13 years ranging
  from 500 litres to 2.5 litres every year.
• The farm is an independent company owned by
  the partners Susie and Andrew. They started out
  as 2 people but have developed into a bigger farm
  containing 22 people.

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Type of farming

• Beechdean is an extensive farm. It means that it
  has a small input but uses a large amount of
  land. This is common for farms with animals.
• This farm is also a pastoral farm which looks
  after animals on a piece of grass land. To make
  profit, they sell off the milk they produce, they
  is also said to be commercial.

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The system of the dairy farm Beechdean
Input
Process
Output

• Money
• Animals
• Labour (22 people)
• Land
• Machinery
• Buildings
• Transportation

• Looking after cows
• Extracting milk
• Breeding cows
• Processing milk

• Milk
• Ice-cream
• Money
• Calves

Feedback

• Money
• Animals

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Affect of Government Policies

• Milk Quotas To reduce overproduction, the EU has
  imposed heavy milk quotas on dairy farms. This
  was a big problem for the farm, because it would
  reduce the farms income. To solve this problem,
  the farm decided to split the farm into 2 groups.
  Ice-cream manufacturing and milking of cows.
• Prices dropped Due to government policies, there
  have been a dramatic drop in dairy product
  prices. Farmers have been forced to sell their
  products at very low prices. Many farmers like
  the Beechdean farm had trouble supporting their
  families due to the loss of income.

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Scientific Advances

• The Beechdean farm bought ice-cream machinery to
  help them make ice-cream!
• The ice-cream machinery they bought speeded up
  their ice-cream production.
• They also bought a van to speed up the delivery
  process.
• The business is growing quickly and is becoming
  highly successful.

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Conclusion
Conclusion

• The Beechdean farm is a extensive, commercial,
  and pastoral farm.
• They have an excellent system of inputs and
  outputs which may be fed back into the system as
  income for the farm.
• Though government policies have affected the
  farm, the farm has used ice-cream as a way to
  overcome these problems.
• Through scientific advances in machinery, the
  Beechdean farm has managed to produce high
  quality ice-cream!

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THE END!!!
By Tim and Brian