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We encourage you to complete the remainder of the form, as the additional details help build a fuller picture of Cumbrian agriculture. This information supports the identification of opportunities for business growth, potential challenges facing the sector, and ways to strengthen local supply chains. While not all details will appear on the website, they are valuable in shaping future support for farmers, growers, and beekeepers across Cumbria.

Survey

Finding out what food you produce (sectors taken from Defra 2021)

Do you have a mixed farm?

Specialist farm options

Which sector best describes your farm business? (Pick only one). 

Grazing LFA clarification - sheep or beef?

What grazing stock do you have on your LFA/ upland farm?  

LFA sheep options

What breeds of upland sheep do you have? 

Upland Beef cattle specialist

What breeds of beef do you have grazing in LFA (uplands)?  

Grazing Lowland clarification - sheep or beef?

What grazing stock do you have on your lowland farm? 

Lowland sheep options

What breeds of lowland sheep do you have?  

Beef cattle specialism

What breeds of beef cattle do you have? 

Dairy specialism

What type of milk does your farm produce?  

Dairy Cattle Breeds (specialist)

What breeds of dairy cattle do you have on your farm?  

Sheep Dairy Breeds (specialist)

What breed of dairy ewe do you milk?  

General cropping options (specialised)

What do you grow? (General cropping) - select all that apply 

Poultry specialist

Are you a producer of broilers or eggs?  
What sort of eggs does your farm produce?  

Pigs - specialised

What breeds of pig do you have on your farm?  

Cereals specialist

What cereals do you grow? 

Top fruit

Do you grow top fruit? (apples, etc) 

Top fruit options

Place a tick against the types of top fruit you grow. 

Soft Fruit

Do you grow soft fruit?  

Soft fruit options

Place a tick against the soft fruit you grow  

Horticulture crops (not fruit)

Place a tick against the types of herbs/vegetable you grow.  

Mixed options

What do you have on your mixed farm? Tick all that apply. 
Beef cattle
What breeds of beef cattle do you have? 
Sheep
What breeds of sheep do you have?  
Cereal options
What cereals do you grow?  
General cropping
What do you grow? (General cropping) - select all that apply  
Horticulture
Place a tick against the types of food you grow.  
Place a tick against the soft fruit you grow  
Place a tick against the types of top fruit you grow.  
Dairy
Does your farm produce dairy?  
What types of milk does your farm produce  
What breeds of dairy cattle do you have on your farm?  
What breeds of beef-cross calves do you produce?
What breed of dairy ewe do you milk?  
Pigs
What breeds of pig do you have on your farm?  
Poultry
Are you a producer of broilers or eggs?  
What sort of eggs does your farm produce? 
Goats
What breeds of goat do you have on your farm?  

Routes to market - recap: animals

Do you sell animals?  
Routes to market: meat

Routes to market: meat. Please tell us about the businesses/ customers you are supplying.

Do you use auction marts?  
Which auctions do you sell to?
finished cattlebreeding cattlestore cattle finished sheepbreeding sheepstore sheeppigsgoatstraditional/fancy poultry
Borderway Mart (H&H) Carlisle CA1 2RS
Broughton in Furness Mart (Barnard Castle) LA20 6HW
Hope's Auctioneers, Wigton CA7 9NS
Kirkby Stephen Mart, (H&H) CA17 4QL
Lazonby Mart (H&H) CA10 1BL
Lockerbie Mart (H&H) DG11 2JA
Longtown Mart (C&D Auction Marts Ltd) CA6 5LY
Mitchell's Auction Co Ltd, Cockermouth CA13 0QQ
North West Auctions, J36 Rural Auction Centre, Milnthorpe LA7 7FP
Penrith & District Farmers Mart CA11 0DN
Ulverston Auction Mart LA12 9AU

Private sale to other farmers

Do you sell beasts privately to other farmers for fulfilling meat contracts? 
What livestock do you sell this way?
What sort of contracts are fulfilled in this way?

Private slaughter arrangements

Do you arrange private slaughter (and processing) for independent meat sales?  
If yes, which abattoir(s) do you use?
cowssheep - lambsheep - muttongoatpig
Border Meats Lockerbie DG11 2DE
G & A Denney, Johnscales Farm, Lyth LA8 8DG
H C Airey & Sons Ltd, Grange over Sands LA11 6JE
Redferns, Buxton SK17 9HT
West Scottish Lamb Ltd, Carlisle CA3 0EH
: Spennymoor, County Durham DL16 7QD
Elsewhere (outside county)
On-site (farm address)
Mobile slaughterhouse - please give details
If yes, where does the butchery happen?

Do you sell game?

Do you cull venison that enters the food chain?  
What happens to your game once shot?

Do you sell meat directly to customers?

Do you sell meat directly to customers (bypassing traditional retail outlets)  
Direct sales of meat - how do you do this? 

Do you fulfil meat contracts for wholesale/supermarket suppliers?

Do you fulfil meat contracts for wholesale/supermarket? 
If yes, where do you send your animals to slaughter? * 

Recap - sell milk?

Are you a dairy farm?  
Dairy Farm

Selling to a dairy?

Do you supply a dairy?  
Which dairy(ies) do you supply?  
Which products are made from the milk (see drop down menu)?
liquid milkbuttercheeseice creamyoghurtkefirwheyfrothy coffee productsInfant formula/ supplement drink
Arla, Lockerbie DG11 1LW
First Milk Cheese Company, Wigton CA7 2AR
North Lakes Foods, Penrith CA11 9BL
Kendal Nutricare Ltd, Kendal LA9 6NL
Benson's Esk Dairy, Carlisle CA6 5TJ
Appleby Creamery Ltd, Appleby in Westmorland CA16 6HX
Holker Farm Dairy, Grange over Sands LA11 7PS
Holm Farm Dairy Ice Cream, Grange over Sands LA11 6QX
Luxury Lakes, Kendal LA9 6NT
Thorny Moor Dairy, Carlisle CA5 6QB
Three Hills Gelato, Wigton CA7 1JZ
Torpenhow Cheese Company, Wigton CA7 1JZ
Whin Yeats Dairy, Carnforth LA6 2PJ
Winter Tarn Dairies, Kendal LA9 4RU

Milk processing on-farm

Do you process milk on the farm?  
Tell us more about your on-farm milk processing 

Routes to market: General Cropping

Do you sell general crops?  

General Cropping Destination

Where does your general crop produce go? 

Routes to market - recap: cereal/grains

Do you sell cereal/grain? 
Animal feed
Is your grain used as animal feed?  
Where does your cereal crop go? 
Which grain merchants do you sell to?  
Cereal milling options
Is your grain used by other businesses as an ingredient? 

Minimally processed cereal destinations

To which businesses do you sell your minimally processed cereal to?  

Milling options & Flour destination

Where do you have your grain milled (for flour)? 
How do you sell your grain/ flour? 

Routes to market - recap: fruit/veg/herbs

Do you produce and sell fruit/veg/herbs?  
Processing fruit/veg/herbs
Is your horticulture crop processed? 
Tick all that apply to the processing of your horticulture crop
In CumbriaOutside Cumbria
sent for processing into alcohol (winemaking/ brewing/ distilling)
processed into alcohol onsite
used in jams/chutneys
processed into soups onsite for retail
Horticulture distribution/retail options
Where do you sell your horticulture crop? Click all that apply. 

Local Distributors

Which local distributors do you supply? * 

Wholesalers

Which regional wholesaler(s) do you supply  

Veg box schemes details

Which veg box scheme(s) do you supply?  

Routes to market - recap: eggs

Do you sell eggs?  
Where do you sell your eggs?  

Routes to market - honey

Do you sell honey?  
Where do you sell your honey? Click all that apply. *