2 November 2026

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Business · 2 min Asher Valley dairy cooperative builds its own cheese plant Forty-one family farms have pooled €9.5m to turn part of their milk into hard cheese and butter, aiming to earn more per litre than selling it to large processors. Aisha Rahman · Business · 1 min Harvest season: rice pours into a waiting trailer Paddy streaming from a combine’s unloading auger quickly filled the trailer at the edge of the field. Lucas Moreau · Business · 1 min Combines side by side in a wheat field: the harvest from above Drone footage shows two combine harvesters unloading grain into a moving tractor trailer. Rafael Ortega · Business · 10 photos · 1 min Tea gardens: green terraces on the hillsides From Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Rwanda to Japan, the rhythmic green patterns of tea plantations. Isabel Duarte · Lifestyle · 2 min Pick-your-own pumpkin farm draws families to the Asher Valley in its busiest October yet A farm that once grew only cereals now plants 14 varieties of pumpkin and squash, and turns its fields over to visitors for four weeks every autumn. Daniel Osei · Business · 2 min Asher Valley grain growers lock in prices with millers through three-year contracts A shared online platform run by the growers' cooperative has matched more than 80 farms with regional mills on fixed-price deals, offering both sides shelter from swings in the commodity market. Elena Sokolova · News · 2 min Asher Valley wheat harvest beats five-year average despite a wet spring Farmers in the Asher Valley have brought in a wheat crop well above recent averages, figures from the Growers' Cooperative show, after a dry, warm finish to the summer rescued fields that were waterlogged at sowing. Hannah Okoye ·