06/02/21 Farming Today This Week: Goat Zoom, questions about Red Tractor, farm workers post-Brexit, agro-ecology
Today we debate the point of farm assurance schemes, discuss finding staff for dairy farms, and hear how a Lancashire farmer is hiring out her goats for lockdown video calls.
Today we debate the point of farm assurance schemes, discuss finding staff for dairy farms, and hear how a Lancashire farmer is hiring out her goats for lockdown video calls. We also hear from people practising agro-ecology, a way of farming which puts nature at the heart of a sustainable approach.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.
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- Sat 6 Feb 202106:30BBC Radio 4
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