22/07/21 - Food standards, Exporting mussels, Wildflower meadows, Paramotor landings
Caz Graham speaks to Jim Moseley from Red Tractor about the new standards they're putting in place for farmers, and asks what this might mean for consumers.
The food assurance scheme Red Tractor is set to announce new standards for farmers that are being brought in from the 1st of November. Caz Graham is speaking to Jim Moseley about how farmers will meet these standards and asks what it might mean for consumers. Ewan Murrie meets a bivalve mollusc farmer who is struggling to trade since the Brexit transition period came to an end. Bob Hockenhall takes a walk through a wildflower meadow in Warwickshire to hear about a new project to boost biodiversity. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's Sacha Dench, flying high about the UK in an electric-powered paramotor and she says farmland can provide surprising sources of thermal energy.
Presenter: Caz Graham
Producer in Bristol: Toby Field
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- Thu 22 Jul 2021 05:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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