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Farming Today: Dairy Update; Campylobacter; Succession planning

28/11/2014

Dairy Update; Campylobacter; Succession planning

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Dairy Update; Campylobacter; Succession planning

What can be done about food poisoning from chicken infected with campylobacter?

What can be done about food poisoning from chicken infected with campylobacter? Charlotte Smith speaks to a lead scientist at the Institute of Food Research.

70% of fresh chickens sold by UK supermarkets are contaminated with campylobacter, says the Food Standards Agency. What can be done to reduce the 280,000 cases of food poisoning caused by chicken infected with the bacteria? Charlotte Smith speaks to Arnoud van Vliet, a lead scientist at the Institute of Food Research.

Dairy farmers are continuing to hold protests over the price they get for milk. Earlier this week around 200 farmers staged blockades, one in Cheshire and one in Wiltshire. They're targeting milk processors, and also supermarkets which sell milk at a discount, saying that devalues their product. We hear from Neil Madeley who's been a dairy farmer in Shropshire for the last 30 years. He's just sold his entire herd of Shorthorn and Pedigree Holsteins, because of falling milk prices.

And we report from the Fertile Minds conference in Penrith, which brought together 150 young farmers from all over the UK. High on the agenda was the thorny topic of succession - when does the next generation take over the business and what happens when Dad doesn't want to even discuss retiring, let alone actually do it? John Dunning is a Cumbrian sheep farmer who's diversified into motorway service stations. He's just handed over the running of the business to his daughter, Sarah.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley.

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