Farming Futures

Two recent reports, commissioned by the Lincolnshire Forum for Agriculture and Horticulture and its partner organisations (including the NFU) shed more light on the importance of agriculture to the local economy and beyond.

For example, did you know that:

• Lincolnshire is the largest potato producer in the UK
• Lincolnshire is the largest wheat producer in the UK
• Lincolnshire is the largest poultry producer in the UK
• Lincolnshire is the largest cereal production area in the UK
• Lincolnshire is the second largest sugar beet producer in the UK
• Lincolnshire is the fifth largest pig producer in England
• Lincolnshire is an internationally significant horticultural area with 38% of UK bulb flowers grown in the County.

Copies of Lincolnshire Farming Futures and Grow Lincolnshire are available by following this link.