20/11/2012

Suspected cases of Ash Dieback appear in domestic gardens for the first time. The Royal Horticultural Society tells Farming Today how gardeners should deal with the fungus. And Jeremy Cooke visits a Danish forest to see whether their devastated woodlands are beginning to recover from Chalara fraxinea.

The booming slug population is causing some farmers to double the amount of slug pellets they are using on crops. Water companies are now concerned about the levels of slug pellet chemicals in watercourses. Anna Hill heads to an East Anglian farm to see how one farmer is coping with this slug invasion.

And a poor wheat harvest in the Ukraine has led to speculation that another Ukrainian wheat export ban is inevitable. In 2007 similar action led to the global food crisis. Jack Farchy from the Financial Times discusses the impact on financial markets and UK food prices.

Presenter: Anna Hill. Producer: Melvin Rickarby.