02/07/21 The new Office for Environmental Protection, sugar beet prices, green fertilisers
The new Office for Environmental Protection gets up and running, and its chair says it will have enough teeth to make a difference.
The new Office for Environmental Protection gets up and running, and its Chair, Dame Glenys Tracey, tells us it will have enough teeth to make a difference.
We hear from the National Farmers' Union Sugar Board and British Sugar on a dispute over sugar beet prices.
And how scientists have been working with arable farmers to try find an alternative to fossil-fuel based fertilisers, using CO2.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton.
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- Fri 2 Jul 202105:45BBC Radio 4
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