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Dual farm payments: how two people can claim subsidies on the same land, at the same time, legally. Charlotte Smith hears the opposing views of the Tenant Farmers Association and the CLA, the Country, Business and Land Association.

Low commodity prices for the most widely grown crops - wheat and barley- mean farmers are looking for alternatives to supply new, emerging markets. Nancy Nicolson has been to the rich arable acres of East Lothian to hear about the rye revival.

And the revival of a crop once so important that a town was named after it. Saffron Walden owes its name to the spice which was grown in the area in Tudor times. But saffron production died out about 200 years ago, when local farmers couldn't compete with the price of imports from the Middle East. David Smale is the Essex farmer who is once again cultivating the crocus.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley.