Farming Today This Week: Salad
To conclude Farming Today's week on salad, Anna Jones visits a farm in Warwickshire to see the lettuce harvest.
To conclude Farming Today's week on salad, Anna Jones visits a farm in Warwickshire to see the lettuce harvest. Valefresco grows whole head lettuces, baby leaf and rocket both out in fields and under polytunnels. Farm director, Nick Mauro, describes how the weather and labour shortages are the biggest challenges facing the industry.
Produced by Beatrice Fenton
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- Sat 1 Jun 201906:30BBC Radio 4
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