Hello, before we start, just a little reminder that there are still tickets available for our live show at the London Podcast Festival on the 18th of September.

There are a small number of tickets in the hall available and there are an unlimited number of streaming tickets.

And that means you can stream it live or watch it after the fact for a week afterwards.

The cast will include Mike Wozniak, Henry Packer and Naji Kamal and it's always good fun.

I'll put the links in the show description that's Beef and Dairy Live on the 18th of September, that's the Sunday afternoon at the London Podcast Festival.

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Hello and welcome to the Beef and Dairy Network podcast, the number one podcast for those involved, or just interested in the production of beef animals and dairy herds.

The Beef and Dairy Network podcast is the podcast companion to the Beef and Dairy Network website and a printed magazine brought to you by Molle, the Moll-based cattle feed.

Now, this month we tackle a growing issue that presents an existential threat to the farming industry here in the UK.

Until recently, if you were growing up in a farming family, you'd proudly look forward to the day that you'd bury your father and take the reins at your farm, becoming master of all you surveyed.

Bowen of the barn, monarch of the milking parlour, headhontia of the hedgerows, potentate of the pasture, crown prince of the confinement pen, sultan of the slaughterhouse, overlord of the oscillating fully automatic cattle bodybrush.

However, according to numbers recently published by the Bowen Farmers Union, more and more people are turning their back on farming and deciding to sell up when they inherit their family farm.

In this month's episode, I speak to people who've decided to turn their back on their birthright and I ask them why they've decided to defecate on everything their forefathers have built for them.

Why do they want to take a metaphorical pickaxe to the foundations of their ancestral palace of beef?

Hello, I'm Alan LaFranne and I've decided to stop farming.

Alan, thanks very much for talking to us today.

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