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A rhubarb mad farmer who supplies the nations largest supermarkets including Sainsburys, Waitrose, and Booths describes the commercial process of preparing the vegetable for consumers. Janet Oldroyd, 72, is one of five generations of farmers who have worked the fields producing the vegetable. She is a director of E Oldroyd & Sons, is one of the nine family owned business based in the nine sq mile area found between Leeds, Wakefield and Bradford known as the rhubarb triangle. Janet Oldroyd-Hulme checks the forced rhubarb by candle light at E Oldroyd & Sons, in the ‘Rhubarb Triangle’ in West Yorkshire. (Pix…