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6th August 2018

Yesterday  Sir Paul Beresford MP visited Manor Farm to see the wheat harvest in action and to show support for the NFU's #YourHarvest campaign.

The campaign aims to raise the understanding of the arable sector and show how we grow the crops which form the bedrock of the UK's food and drink sector.

Every year the UK produces over 20 million tonnes of grain which is used as the raw material for products from pasta to breakfast cereal and 985 million pints of beer are produced every year from barley and malt ,with exports worth more than £500 m.

11 million loaves of bread are produced every year and 85% of the wheat used is British.

Whilst Surrey is a very wooded county, here in Mole Valley over  31,000 acres (34%) is farmland with 899 people directly employed in farming.

The gross value added of farming in Mole Valley alone, being £7.39 million.

96,591 people in Mole Valley will eat an estimated 2,813 tonnes of bread this year, 9,583,494 litres of milk and 10,598,952 eggs this year!

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