For many years, the press has been full of stories about fruit farmers ripping up their orchards as they lose out to low price competition from overseas.
One company that has gainsaid this trend in an astonishingly successful manner is Lower Hope Farms – a diverse business consisting of many farming enterprises on the beautiful Malvern Hills in North Herefordshire. While the estate covers 1800 acres, the home farm is at Lower Hope, Ullingswick, home to the owners, Mr & Mrs Clive Richards. The livestock enterprises include a successful herd of Pedigree Hereford Cattle, a Pedigree Suffolk flock as well as a commercial ewe flock, while the Estate also farms a large area of arable land, wheat, rape, canary seed in rotation with potatoes.
