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Farming Today: 26/05/2010

26/05/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 26/05/2010

Landowners are urged to give up land to help new farmers get a foot on the ladder.

Landowners are being urged to earmark hundreds of hectares of land for new farmers or risk losing young talent abroad.

Landowners are being asked to earmark hundreds of hectares for new farmers. A Government advisor warns without gaining a foothold with access to land, young talent will go overseas. 
In the wake of the new Government's announcement that it will go ahead with a badger cull to reduce bovine TB, a group of farmers in Devon have applied for a special licence to stage their own cull.
Anna Hill goes behind the scenes in an accommodation village for migrant workers to see what life on the farm is like for them. 
Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.

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