Interviewer:    Well Mr Bullock. How did you get into farming?

Mr Bullock:     My father was a farmer and my grandfather before him.
After I left school I went on to college. Ever since then I have been
in farming, a total of 23 years.

Interviewer:    And how has farming changed in that time?

Mr Bullock:     Well, for example, my parents had a herd of about 50
cows and in those days it was considered to be quite large. Nowadays
we have a herd of 300 dairy cows, 500 sheep, and 30 or 40 pigs, apart
from poultry and so on.

Interviewer:    So it's a mixed farm. Where are the cattle, sheep and
pigs sold? Are they sold locally?

Mr Bullock:     It used to be all through local markets and abattoirs.
That's probably the biggest transformation that's happened in the last
fifteen years. Supermarkets and big companies have taken over all the
buying power and the margins are getting tighter and tighter.