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The Yorkshire Milkshake!

Caz Graham hears how milkshakes, glitter balls and vending machines have turned around the fortunes of a Yorkshire dairy farm.

Yorkshire dairy farmers James and Alex Hill like a milkshake and had a feeling they weren’t alone. Just three years ago they launched their own milkshake and milk vending machines in 5 farm shops. The shakes sold really well and a pal of theirs wondered if they might be interested in converting the old beer trailer, he’d used at festivals into their own mobile milkshake truck. Of course they would!
The trailer now serves festival-goers rhubarb and custard, bis-cowf, and red velvet milkshakes instead of best bitter and mild at events across Yorkshire. Visitors to this summer’s Great Yorkshire Show supped up 15 hundred litres of flavoured milk and 800 litres of ice-cream.
Caz Graham visits the Hill family farm near Penistone to see how robotic milking and a vending machine shop complete with music, glitterballs and cow print boxer shorts have helped transform farm life. Then it’s off to Barnsley town centre to pull a few pints... of frothy milkshake.

Release date:

22 minutes

On radio

Sun 21 Sep 2025 06:35

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Sep 2025 06:35