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14/04/20 Yorkshire Shepherdess, lamb bacon, onions, Cornish veg boxes

Coronavirus is shutting Britain down, but farmers are still out producing food. We hear from some of them.

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Coronavirus is shutting Britain down, but farmers are still out producing food. We hear from some of them.
Amanda Owen, the Yorkshire Shepherdess, is experiencing lambing time with a difference with her 9 children off school on her farm in Swaledale, North Yorkshire.
We hear about lamb bacon being cured in West Wales, and onions being sown in Lincolnshire. And an update from our Farming Today diarist growing veg in North Cornwall.

Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Beatrice Fenton.

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Tue 14 Apr 202005:45

BBC Radio 4

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