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Farming Today: Forage Aid, Fish quotas, Weetabix

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18/12/2014

Forage Aid, Fish quotas, Weetabix

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Forage Aid, Fish quotas, Weetabix

A scheme helping farmers feed their animals in a crisis is set to become a charity.

A scheme helping farmers feed their animals during a crisis is set to become a farming charity. And conservationists say the deal on fish quotas is a missed opportunity.

Whether its been floods or snow, in recent years a scheme called Forage Aid has helped farmers feed their animals during the crisis. It now hopes to gain charitable status early next year. The organisation, which was founded by Lincolnshire farmer Andrew Ward, helps organise and co-ordinate donations of animal food when weather destroys farmers stocks.

Conservationists say the deal on fish quotas negotiated this week in Brussels is a missed opportunity and accuse the British Government of ignoring the science. With fishermen there is a mixed reaction, while there are cuts in some quotas many are not as big as they had feared. Farming Today speaks to the Fisheries Minister George Eustice and the Marine Conservation Society.

And the company Weetabix, which was bought out by a Chinese company two years ago, hopes to tap into the Chinese breakfast market, by tweaking some of their recipes. All of the wheat grown for thier UK produced cereals is grown within 50 miles of the Northamptonshire factory.

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