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Farming Today: 15/01/2014

15/01/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 15/01/2014

A badge of honour for more British foods as Europe gives them protected status.

Farming and countryside news with Anna Hill. Europe gives more British foods elite protected status. And over half a million pounds will be used to investigate pig fighting habits.

More British foods join the likes of the Cornish Pasty and the Melton Mowbray pork pie today, in gaining protected status. More than sixty products in the UK make up the elite list and it's estimated that they help contribute more than £900 million to the European economy.

The fighting habits of pigs will be under scrutiny as scientists have won funding of more than half a million pounds to investigate how to prevent aggression amongst the animals.

And a West Country farmer has created a modern-day long barrow on his land, the first to be built in the country for more than 5,000 years.

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