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Farming Today: Food security, Ash dieback, Beef summit

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01/07/2014

Food security, Ash dieback, Beef summit

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Food security, Ash dieback, Beef summit

Farmers, meat processors and retailers meet for beef price talks.

Defra is hosting a 'beef summit', bringing together producers, processors and retailers for discussions about price. Presented by Anna Hill.

What can be done to alleviate what beef farmers are calling a crisis over prices? Producers, processors and retailers will meet for a 'beef summit' later today.

Two farmers in Cornwall are fined, after identity ear tags were fraudulently removed from cows which had tested positive for TB.

And Anna Hill takes a walk in the woods with a specialist in ash dieback, who points out the mushrooms ready to release a deadly cargo of spores to infect yet more trees.

Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell.

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