MOVING into the oil business has given Stainswick Farm, near Shrivenham, a welcome boost.
In 2010, owners David and Helen Sanderson, pictured with their children, from left, Izzy, Imogen, Toby and Ellie, took a risk and invested £150,000 and put 100 acres over to rapeseed growing.
Now selling about 7,000 litres of their Seeds of Change rapeseed oil a year, the other 90 per cent of their crop goes to commercial buyers for use in animal feeds and in vegetable oil production for human consumption.
Mr Sanderson said: “I have been in farming for 18 years and this is the first time I have actually been making money, which I’m now able to reinvest in the farm.”
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