TWO Herefordshire farmers will appear in the BBC's new current affairs programme this evening.

In this week’s episode of We Are England, the show will follow the reality of what it means for farms across the country as regulations change and they take on new challenges to keep their businesses afloat by developing new ways of working.

The stories viewers will see in the 7.30pm time slot on Wednesday varies depending on where they are in the country, with programmes tailored to local areas.

The episode produced by the Birmingham hub for the West Midlands follows two potato farmers in Hereford who are going green.

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Their on-site crisp factory is fuelled by the actual potatoes, generating all the power through anaerobic digestion and they’ve developed plastic-free crisp packets which are fully compostable – but is the investment proving costly?

The featured farm, where Mark Green and Sean Mason's Two Farmers crisps are made, is in Peterstow, near Ross-on-Wye.

There, they package crisps in 100 per cent compostable packets.

The two also boast that their green crisps, launched in 2018, are made using renewable energy as part of their big commitment to giving back to the environment.

The farm has also won an award for being the UK’s Most Carbon Neutral farm. They are continuing this with their crisps.

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Meanwhile, in and around Bristol, the programme will follow the shellfish fishermen of the River Fal Estuary whose future is under threat after being knocked sideways by Brexit.

Then we see the inner workings of a "care farm" in Oxfordshire through the eyes of the autistic students who work there.

Owner Lydia Otter opened up her cattle farm to help those with complex and special needs learn animal care and gardening skills, but she is battling to keep it going after being hit by recent changes to funding and subsidies.

In a programme by the Norwich hub, the show will feature a young farmer who has taken over the family beef business from her 80-year-old father and is having to invent new ways to make money, while also feeding and caring for her herds of highland cows every day.

In the north of England we follow a family in East Yorkshire as they battle to save their pigs after a lack of abattoir workers has created a backlog of the animals on farms, meaning farmers are rapidly running out of space and face having to cull their livestock.

Then, for viewers in and around the North East, the show will meet a couple who have ploughed all their life savings into a farm in the Howgill fells of Cumbria at a time when agriculture is at a crossroads.