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Farming Today This Week: Education

Charlotte Smith meets agriculture students at Bridgwater College for a look at education - teaching young children where food comes from and older students making a career of it.

Charlotte Smith is at Bridgwater College in Somerset to meet students hoping to make a career in agriculture - from livestock farming, to veterinary technology. The college has invested millions of pounds into the 200 acre on-site farm and an agriculture innovation centre.
Caz Graham has been with primary school children in Cumbria on a visit to a local farm which is run as a community interest company, to teach them where their food comes from.
Sarah Falkingham checks out a careers fair where students find out that there's more to farming as a career than driving a tractor and milking cows - and that could be anything from agronomy to experts in biodiversity.
And we discuss why changes to qualifications could put school children interested in a land-based career at a disadvantage.
The producer is Sally Challoner.

27 minutes

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  • Sat 10 Oct 201506:30

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