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Farming Today: 20/03/2012

20/03/2012

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Combating campylobacter - what poultry farmers need to do to reduce this deadly bacterium.

Anna Hill hears ways to combat campylobacter, the bacteria in raw chicken that causes 700,000 cases of food poisoning each year.

Anna Hill hears ways to combat campylobacter - the bacteria in raw and undercooked chicken that causes 700,000 cases of food poisoning each year. The Food Standards Agency has set targets to reduce the amount of campylobacter in chicken over the next three years. Professor Tom Humphrey from Liverpool University and Peter Bradnock from the British Poultry Council explain what they think needs to be done to meet these targets.

And farmers are facing tough decisions over what to plant as rivers, ponds, wetlands and streams are all drying up in this year's drought. Many of the crops farmers had originally planned to plant will not survive in dry weather without irrigation. Nick Parrish is an onion and potato grower in Bedfordshire, he tells us the changes he is making to try and limit the damage of the drought to his business.

Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill.

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