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Farming Today: Transatlantic trade deal, Livestock breeding, M5 services

Transatlantic trade deal, Livestock breeding, M5 services

19/05/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Transatlantic trade deal, Livestock breeding, M5 services

A transatlantic trade deal is threatened by disagreements over food and farming.

A transatlantic trade deal is threatened by disagreements over food and farming. And when it comes to livestock breeding, is Britain still the stockyard of the world?

A multi-million pound transatlantic trade deal is threatened by rows over agricultural issues, according to a House of Lords Committee. There have been disagreements over genetically modified organisms and geographical indications.

The county show season is underway, meaning livestock from around the country are being primed for competition. All of this week Farming Today will explore the livestock breeding industry, from export of genetics to artificial insemination. This morning Henry Lewis from the British Livestock Genetics Consortium tells Farming Today that Britain still considers itself as the stockyard of the world.

And a new motorway service station has opened on the M5 in Gloucestershire, where most of the food and drink comes from within a 30 mile radius. Dave Harvey has been to meet one of the producers who is supplying it.

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