13/04/2011
The use of subsidised diesel on farms could be banned, costing farmers millions of pounds each year. Anna Hill asks if parity with road users is long overdue.
Farmers in the UK are paying less than 70 pence a litre for the diesel they use in farm machinery - about half the price other road users are paying at the pumps. But that reduction could come to an end as early as next year, under new proposals being discussed in Brussels. Anna Hill asks why farmers think they deserve cheaper fuel.
A council tenant farm has been saved from sell-off by becoming a community farm and inviting the public to buy 'comunity shares'. Farming Today visits Woodhouse Farm in Lichfield and asks if more council farms threatened with a sell-off could follow suit.
Anna goes to meet a bull being primped and preened before show season to hear how much a prize can increase its saleability and desireability for breeding.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.
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