01/08/22 - Robots on farms, Tenant farmers
A review of automation on farms has been published, calling for more cooperation between academia, business and farmers. Charlotte Smith looks at the issues facing tenant farmers.
A review looking into robots on farms has been published, it calls for more cooperation between academia, business and farmers. It also recommends a longer-term seasonal workers scheme so that agriculture has enough staff while the automation industry becomes more mainstream. We hear from a farm in Cornwall where robots are already being used to plant crops.
All this week Farming Today will be looking at tenant farmers. They manage 35% of the UK's farmed land area, and are a vital part of the food growing network. But they face some challenges - from increasingly shorter tenancies to a lack of available land. Council owned farms have also been sold off as the money is needed elsewhere. Charlotte Smith finds out about the difficulties facing tenants.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced in Bristol by Sally Challoner.
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