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Red Tractor labelling scheme; Politics: Liz Truss's farming priorities

Consumers express confusion about the meaning of the Red Tractor food labelling scheme. Environment secretary Liz Truss lays out her farming priorities.

Consumers express confusion about the meaning of the Red Tractor food labelling scheme. Currently, cows need to've been on a Red Tractor assured farm for the last three months of its life in order to be labelled under the scheme. However, Chris Mallon of the National Beef Association explains why his members are opposed to proposed changes in the Red Tractor scheme, in which the cows would need to have spent their whole lives on the farm.

All this week on Farming Today we're hearing the farming priorities from different political parties. Today, it's the turn of Environment Secretary Liz Truss.

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Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley.

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  • Fri 27 Mar 201505:45

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