30/03/24 Farming Today This Week: Protest at Westminster, cap on land taken out of food production, Brexit impacts on salmon.
Tractors at Westminster as farmers protest, and the environment secretary announces a limit to the amount of land farmers can put into environmental schemes in England.
Earlier this week English farmers drove tractors into London and held a rally outside Parliament, protesting at what they say is a lack of support for British food production.
Just a few hours before that rally the Government announced a change in the rules for environmental schemes. Farmers will now only be able to put 25% of their land into schemes which take land out of food production to try to address concerns about food security.
Brexit has cost Scotland up to £100m a year in 'lost' salmon exports, MSPs were told this week.
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Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.
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