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Whilst rain continues to impede the harvest, we hear from Lincolnshire farmer Tim Lamyman who's broken not just one but two world records for the highest yields per hectare, one for oil seed rape, the other for wheat.

Ahead of next Monday's emergency EU agriculture summit in Brussels, Irish farmers call for more help from the Commission, in the face of falling farm incomes resulting from the lower food prices across dairy, grain and other sectors.

Since the 1970's, China's consumption of pork has risen seven-fold. Nearly half the world's pigs are in China. So how can a British pork processor succeed in such a competitive market? Cranswick Country Foods has annual revenues of a billion pounds, and processes 30% of the UK's pork. It sends out 35 containers a week to China. Anna Hill meets Andrew Taylor at Cranswick's abattoir and processing plant in Watton in Norfolk, to hear about the strong market they have developed for the so-called "fifth quarter" - the bits which other countries don't want.

Produced by Mark Smalley and presented by Anna Hill.