
03/01/2014
Food and farming news, presented by Caz Graham. The weeks of heavy wind, rain and flooding show no signs of letting up. But how is the continuing bad weather affecting farmers?
The Environment Agency has issued flood warnings and alerts across Britain, following weeks of heavy rain, and the bad weather shows no signs of stopping. For many farmers, the conditions are becoming very tough, with ditches overflowing and grassland churned into mud, whilst animals grazing outdoors are being moved to higher ground. Caz Graham hears from two farmers who've been affected.
As the Duke of Cambridge prepares to embark upon a ten week course in agricultural management, we ask what he should be learning, both inside and outside the classroom.
And Beatrice Fenton is in the Cotswolds, finding out about a project to boost the numbers of farmland birds with swathes of winter birdseed crops.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Jules Benham.
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