Farming Today This Week

Drought or flooding? Charlotte Smith hears how UK farmers could better manage their water.

The Midlands is facing the driest year since records began in 1910. Charlotte visits mixed farmer, Arthur Hill, in Much Wenlock, Shropshire who has received two thirds of his normal year's rainfall.
But with other parts of the country susceptible to flooding, could there be a way of sharing the excess out to the driest parts of the UK?
Farming Today hears the possibility of creating a water network, a wet National Grid, to move water to where its needed. And Caz Graham talks to farmers in Cockermouth, Keswick and other parts of the Lake District two years after devastating floods. They're now trialling their own flooding solutions by planting trees to slow down water run-off from the land.

Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Clare Freeman.