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On Your Farm: 11/03/2012

11/03/2012

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The upland research farm in Wales which is due to be sold after 80 years of service.

Charlotte Smith visits the upland research farm in Wales which is due to be sold after 80 years of service.

Charlotte Smith visits Pwllpeiran, the upland research farm in Wales which is due to be sold after 80 years of service. It's a huge farm, perched at the top of the Cambrian mountains, and is rough, challenging farming terrain, where 5 inches of rain can fall in a single day.

It was taken over by government in 1955, to help post-war Wales produce more food in the uplands. Today it houses a number of long running experiments, on farm pollution, climate change and water quality, as research priorities have changed. ADAS has held the lease since 1997, but is pulling out of the farm 5 years before the lease ends. Unless a buyer can be found by the autumn, the Welsh Assembly government will sell it in small lots to local farmers.

Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby.

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