Flood response criticised, EU views in Northern ireland, CAP reform and grass testing
Whitehall is criticised for flood failings. Northern Ireland farmers discuss the EU. Does the CAP focus too much on farming instead of food? And marking 160 years of grass testing.
The Government is being accused of failing to protect communities at risk of flooding. A cross-party committee of MPs looking into the winter floods in places like Cumbria, Yorkshire and Lancashire has singled out a lack of long-tern planning. With two weeks to go until the EU referendum, farmers and fishermen in Northern Ireland share their views on whether the UK should remain or leave. Should Europe's Common Agriculture Policy be redrawn to focus less on farming and more on food? A new report calls for a re-think of the CAP. A pioneering grass experiment is still turning up discoveries after 160 years. Park grass testing at Rothamsted in Hertfordshire is the oldest research of its type in the world.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Vernon Harwood.
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