A modern farm is unlikely to be producing such a variety of food as a farm in Victorian times. Modern farmers tend to specialise. Farming methods are more efficient and farmers are producing more food from each acre of land.

Most farmers sell what they produce to other businesses who prepare it for sale to shops and supermarkets who sell it to us.

For instance, most dairy farmers sell their milk to a processing factory or dairy. There, some of it is put into bottles and sold as liquid milk, and some is made into butter or other dairy products. Much of the milk produced in Cornwall goes to the Dairy Crest factory at Davidstow to be made into cheese.

Cornish farmers growing large acreages of vegetables and soft fruit usually sell them direct to one of the big supermarkets or, in the case of potatoes, to crisp manufacturers.
Cereal crops such as wheat and oats are sold through agricultural merchants. They may use these crops to prepare bags of feed for all kinds of livestock from chickens to horses.

Cattle, sheep and pigs are sold off the farm to abattoirs like St Merryn at Bodmin or through the remaining livestock markets. The meat produced is sold to us through supermarkets or local butcher shops.
