07/01/25 - Wet weather, HS2 limbo and innovative food and farming ideas

It's been a frozen and wet start to 2025 with widespread snow and flooding. For many farmers it's all a bit too much like last winter - the wettest on record - which saw crops drowned and delayed much planting simply because the land was too wet to get onto it.

We hear from farmers along the cancelled northern leg of HS2, who say they still face uncertainty. The high speed railway line from Birmingham to Manchester was cancelled in October 2023 - but land remains set aside for major infrastructure.

And we hear from two innovative companies about what they think the future holds for food and farming.

Presented by Charlotte Smith
Produced by Heather Simons