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A new breed of young farmers is creatively seizing an opportunity and supplying premium produce to specialist markets.
The pig breeders Lucy Hollands and Damian van Aswegen, both 27, run aherd of 230 pigs in ancient woodland in Eridge Park, East Sussex. Their pigs are all British rare breeds, including Tamworth, Saddleback and Gloucester Old Spot, much of whose diet comes from foraging on the woodland floor. The pork that this yields has a stronger and more distinctive taste than most modern, intensively farmed meat, and in 2009 it won the Taste of Excellence prize at the Pig and Poultry Marketing Awards. As well as supplying pubs and restaurants, the couple sell direct to the public from a new farm shop on the edge of the wood.
To get a start, they enrolled on a short pig husbandry course. Next, they bought four Old Spot piglets for about £35 each and kept them in a friend's small patch of woodland looking after them before and after work. When family and friends, and then local pub and restaurant owners, said they were impressed by the pork, van Aswegen and Hollands increased the number of pigs to 16.
They wrote to the Marquess of Abergavenny to ask if he would rent them woodland on his nearby estate, and he agreed. Van Aswegen gave up his job, Hollands went part-time, and, having been refused loans, the couple sold their cottage to raise the money for stock and equipment.
'We had four long years without really making any money,' van Aswegen says. Without economies of scale, it costs, very roughly, £150 just to feed, slaughter and butcher a pig whose meat will fetch about £250; out of that you must account for housing, transport, vets' bills, running costs and replenishing stock before you can think about taking money out yourself. But the shop, in which they are equal partners with the estate, 'has changed things enormously – [the business] now feels successful. We sell the meat from at least 10 pigs a week there. It's the light at the end of the tunnel.'
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They both work up to 19 hours a day, seven days a week, tending, mending and doing the paperwork, although the hardest part, van Aswegen says, has been marketing the product, communicating the advantages of rare-breed, outdoor-bred pork.
Van Aswegen says, 'We're proud, because we're doing something we believe in. But it also gives you a sense of a balance and a purpose to life. You and the animals need each other. It feeds the soul more than a lot of other jobs.'
(Richard Benson “The Telegraph“, www.telegraph.co.uk)
VI. Напишите свое резюме, выбрав подходящую должность, согласно плану:
1) salesperson 2) manager 3) accountant
at:
- a subsidiary of a big corporation in your city (KFC, Procter & Gamble etc.)
- a small food shop
- a big supermarket
1. Personal details
2. Education
3. Professional experience
4. Skills
Languages
Additional
5. Activities
6. References
Контрольная работа № 3 по английскому языку
Для студентов заочного отделения ИжГСХА
(направление «Экономика», «Менеджмент», «Экономическая безопасность»)
Вариант 3
I. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глагол - сказуемое и определите его видовременную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык:
1. Economic analysis includes the theory of supply and demand.
2. The regional managers are visiting each local office this week.
3. The big banks have put up interests rates for borrowers to 15%.
4. The report was sent to you more than two months ago.
5. The conference will be held in October and everyone is required to attend it.
6. All the letters have just been printed.
7. The agenda of the meeting is being discussed now.
II. В следующих предложениях подчеркните Participle I и Participle II и установите функции каждого из них, т. е. укажите, является ли оно определением, обстоятельством или частью глагола сказуемого. Переведите предложения на русский язык:
1. Any people working in their own businesses should calculate the cost of their own time spent in running the business.
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2. Not knowing the major points of the agreement the director refused to sign it.
3. Last week our secretary sent you the letter quoting the prices of our products.
4. Thank you for the fax sent by you on November, 19.
5. They are studying advertising materials of our local newspaper.
III. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на функцию инфинитива.
1. To be profitable the firm should be well organized.
2. They discussed the limits on export to be imposed by the government next year.
3. To complete the work we need both time and money.
4. To invest money in this private enterprise is profitable.
5. The measures to be taken to maintain the profit margins are rather reasonable.
