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The public has been urged to purchase a whole turkey from local farmers this Christmas on the NFU’s Buy my Turkey Day

Fruit and vegetable shortages in supermarkets have helped drive demand at farm shops and farmers’ markets, according to the 51AVÊÓƵRetail Association.

The Government has pledged more than £100m to help level up rural communities and businesses, it has been announced.

The Mack family farm in the heart of the Norfolk broads is home to an arable unit, thriving rapeseed oil business, farm shop, timeshare swimming pool and more recently a beef enterprise. Clemmie Gleeson reports.

The scale of the disruption we have seen to the food service sector due to the coronavirus restrictions in the past week is unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before, and I know farmers up and down the country who supply the likes of McDonalds and Nando’s will feel concerned about what this might mean, says Head of food and farming Philip Hambling.Ìý