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Farming Today: 04/02/2013

04/02/2013

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The rural view of high-speed rail - a blight on the landscape or an engine of growth?

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The rural view of high-speed rail - a blight on the landscape or an engine of growth? With Charlotte Smith.

The rural view of high speed rail - a blight on the landscape or an engine of growth? Julie Mills from Greengauge 21 puts the case for HS2 to Charlotte Smith, and Farming Today visits one Staffordshire farmer who's farm is set to be split in two by the new route.

The weather is being blamed for a marked fall in farm incomes. New government figures show
English pig farmers' incomes fell by 50% last year, and dairy farmers' by 40%. Richard Crane from Deloitte's suggests it's now a case of the survival of the fittest.


Presenter: Charlotte Smith. Producer: Melvin Rickarby.

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