07/12/2012
The latest food and farming news with Charlotte Smith. As ash dieback reaches nearly 300 sites in the UK, the government reveals its latest plans for controlling the disease.
As ash dieback reaches nearly 300 sites in the UK, the government reveals its latest plans for controlling the disease. But the Woodland Trust warns it's too little too late to save the ash tree.
A survey of Welsh hill farmers suggests that without public funds they lose on average Β£2000 per year. Tony O'Reagan from the University of Aberystwyth tells Farming Today why it's so hard to make money in the hills.
And Moira Hickey visits the Cairngorms where one farmer without a successor warns that intelligent, qualified people are deserting the uplands.
Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced in Birmingham by Ruth Sanderson.
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