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How easy is it for farmers to discover new ways of working, and can they find the right help and advice when they need it? What's the relationship between farmers and researchers, be they working within university departments or commercial companies? All this week Farming Today is looking at innovation in farming. Mark Smalley reports from a conference about farm innovation at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire.

'Lave net' fishing dates back hundreds of years on the Severn estuary, and involves spreading a net across a Y-shaped wooden frame, which is wedged in the mud and held by a fisherman up to his or her waist in the water. The Environment Agency has reduced the fishermen's annual catch from five fish each, to just one - blaming declining numbers of salmon in the Estuary. Steve Knibbs meets 84 year old Jock Riggs, who's been fishing on the Severn since 1946. Do the new rules threaten an ancient way of life?

And Farming Minister George Eustice gives an update on deadlines for farmers claiming farm subsidy through the Rural Payments Agency.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell.