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Farming Today: 02/12/2011

02/12/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 02/12/2011

Charlotte Smith hears the government plans to review wildlife habitat legislation.

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman tells Farming Today the misuse of wildlife laws means she will now be reviewing the European rules.

Environment secretary Caroline Spelman tells Farming Today the misuse of wildlife laws means she will now be reviewing the European rules. Chancellor George Osborne attacked some environment legislation in his Autumn statement, saying it holds businesses back. The RSPB has warned this could be an agenda which will ruin years of work promoting wildlife.

Charlotte Smith hears about the 'holy grail' of crop science - self-fertilising wheat. Jeremy Murray from the John Innes Centre says it could halve agriculture's carbon footprint.

And a trip round the flowers and fields of the Upton Estate in the Midlands shows how farmers now rotate food for wildlife just as they rotate their crops.

Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby.

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