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Farm Payment extension, Short farm tenancies, Seasonal worker folk song

Farms in 'higher level' environmental schemes can keep claiming for five years - good news, or signs of more delays? Plus a folk song for 'hidden' migrant seasonal workers.

Farmers who currently get the highest level of government support for looking after the environment have been told they will be able to carry those schemes over for a further five years. We ask if that's good news, or if it could mean more delays for farmers transferring to the new Environmental Land Management schemes.

We continue our look into Tenant Farming - today we hear concerns that farmers signed up for short tenancies could find applying for those new environmental protection schemes more difficult. Fiona Clampin meets Lewis Steer in Dartmoor.

And we hear a new folk song that's been written to pay tribute to migrant seasonal workers. It was commissioned by researchers from the University of Leeds and Oxford who are running a project called 'Feeding the Nation' to track the experiences of workers throughout the 2020 and 2021 harvests.

Presented by Caz Graham
Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

13 minutes

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  • Thu 4 Aug 2022 05:45

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