Free range fortunes
UK - Twenty years ago David Brass had his head in the clouds, flying Harrier jets for the RAF. He is a farmer now, with his feet firmly planted on the ground - but his Cumbrian free range egg business is soaring ahead.
4 September 2006
2 minute read
The Lakes Free Range Egg Company is now one of the largest egg packing companies in the UK, supplying major supermarkets and McDonalds.
The company recently scooped a trophy at the National Farming Awards, being named as the best business in the food chain.
And it has been so successful that a number of local farmers have invested in their own free range flocks to become suppliers - replacing or augmenting the declining incomes they were getting from their sheep and beef farms.
Source: BBC
